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So, yeah. There's a few new fads going around at my high school (Ukulele, Tetris Battle, Skyrim, and Spandex ), and one of the more recent ones is known as 'WikiRaces.'

I have barely any idea of what the f*** this is, or how old it has been since its birth. But it's addicting.

How it goes (As far as I know) is that you and a couple other people are sitting next to each other, each person on the same random page. The objective of Wikiraces is that you, along with your friends, are told a random topic and must ONLY click on the links to reach a specific page.
-Example: [Starting from Afghanistan to Glucose, go!] [Afghanistan, Ministry of Public Health, Nursing, Health, Blood Pressure, Sugar, win!] (<--Does not know if this is even true)
Basically, you check your legitimacy by pressing the back button all the way to the starting page.

My assumption of how this was invented was when a teacher caught the kids browsing [Insert here] on/for [insert here] with laptops, which distracted from [Insert something school related].

So, my question is:
Has anyone ever tried it, and is anyone willing to do so?

I haven't heard of it as a racing thing, but I do remember 4chan threads where there were challenges to get from "Random page" to Hitler

Haven't heard the racing thing either, but I do know of this xkcd strip from earlier this year, where the alt text claims the following:

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I tried it with 10 random Wikipedia articles, and in every case I ended up at "Philosophy".

wacko, on 15 December 2011 - 02:58 PM, said:

Unless you get caught in a loop, you'll end in Philosophy, yeah. (The earliest reference I saw of that was the alt text of this comic, which then gave birth to this thread.) [EDIT: Somehow didn't notice wacko already linked to it.] There's even a website that automatically does it for you, you just have to type the name of an article and it goes to philosophy or gets caught in a loop, and it maps the results nicely. Check it out.

On topic: I've never tried WikiRacing, but it sounds fun. I'd probably be willing to do so if it's well organized.

This post has been edited by Itu: 15 December 2011 - 04:02 PM

Itu, on 15 December 2011 - 03:56 PM, said:

...What.



I like how Justin Bieber, Jesus and Fornication are all on the Science Tree.

No, I've never Wikiraced. It sounds fun, though.

This post has been edited by Sparkfur: 16 December 2011 - 04:17 AM

Nope but just like basicaly everyone else it sounds very interesting