This is one of my favorite forum games.  Here's how it works: the person above you posts a link to a Wikipedia article.  You go to Wikipedia and click the "random article" button in the toolbar.  You need to click links from that random article to navigate your way to the Wikipedia article that the previous golfer posted: the fewer links the better! It's fun and a bit educational, too.
 
Here's an example.  Suppose I'm trying to get to the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_art.  I could take the following path:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett_Harbor,_New_York (random start: city on long island)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island (island near New York City)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston (city in northeastern USA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Boston (art museum in Boston)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_art (destination)

5 links to my destination! Not bad. Believe it or not, you can make most connections in 5 or fewer links if you try hard. (You can call 5 links "par".) If you're too busy to optimize your path, getting it in 10 is usually pretty easy.

Other various rules:

• All English encyclopedia articles (those hosted on "en.wikipedia.org") are game.
• Pages that have a namespace (like "User:" or "Wikipedia:") are not encyclopedia articles and therefore may not be used.
• Have fun!

Let's start! First destination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team

Starting point: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw (the town is near Warsaw)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro (Rio is a sister town of Warsaw)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Estádio_do_Maracanã

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team (destination)

 

Next destination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjen_Robben

start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Monagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Kingdom#World_War_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_German

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_national_football_team

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_G%C3%B6tze

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bayern_Munich

 

wow that took a while

 

next goal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An225

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raillimont

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_(United_Nations)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_scientists

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-225

 

 

Next destination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_zittre_nicht,_mein_lieber_Sohn

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neridup_Land_District (land in Western Australia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Australia (Opera Company)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Zauberfl%C3%B6te

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_zittre_nicht,_mein_lieber_Sohn

 

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_Province

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Probyn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyo_no_kuni

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Telecom_T1

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Mannequin (47th volume of Nancy Drew)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_literature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone_%28video_game%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_video_game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft (a popular video game)

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Telecom_T1 (an e-sports team known for StarCraft)

 

That one was tough. 6 links from a random children's book to a random e-sports team isn't too bad, though.

 

Next destination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_National_Constituent_Assembly_of_1789 (of France)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_MS_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_Mississippi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie

 

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Kinen

start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letheobia_caeca (fuck)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_continent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_River

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki,_Kanagawa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo#Sports

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_at_the_1964_Summer_Olympics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Jumping

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroughbred

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horse_racing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horse_racing_venues

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horse_racing_venues_in_Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Racecourse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Kinen (fuck you Betsy)

 

New target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Dykes

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herkimer_diamond

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herkimer_County,_New_York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_province

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonia

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Dykes

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV5_%28Finland%29 (TV station in Finland)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Chefs_of_Beverly_Hills (a TV show on the Food Network)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Chef_America (another TV show on the Food Network)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_by_the_Bay

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Davis (page with several Kyle Davis people)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_singles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parks_in_Singapore

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_by_the_Bay (parks in Singapore)

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikorta_church

 

 

was it that bad Blade? Should have gone for the geographical location

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaodong_Wang (Chinese-born American biochemist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_aviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_architecture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1170s_in_architecture

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikorta_church (an ancient church in the country Georgia)

 

Ikorta Church is really deep. I couldn't find any good way to get there without going through either the "timeline/lists route" or the "geography route".

 

 

Let's try this one… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye_epidermal_hyperplasia_virus

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Leynes (castle in france)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye_epidermal_hyperplasia_virus

 

Always look at your target page, you can find good clues in finding a close link. I wanted to go thruw the recent Ukraine plane crash (it has lots of HIV doctors on it) but as I didn't found it immedealty, I went with my back-up

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Derevyanko

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremiaphila_bifasciata (a species of praying mantis)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece (the word "mantis" comes from ancient Greek)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_City (a Soviet honorary title awarded for outstanding heroism during World War II)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress (battle in World War II)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_War (a film about the Defense of Brest Fortress)

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Derevyanko (Russian actor starring in Fortress of War)

 

Pavel Derevyanko only has five inbound links. I also had an opportunity to go through Crimea, but it would have added another two links and I was already at seven.

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmatogaster_subterranea

 

This has only one inbound link.

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_Football_League (UK premiere league)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway,_London (town of Arsenal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Museum_of_Zoology_and_Comparative_Anatomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_specimen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid

 

Went for a biological path, finally found a way in, now its just working down the taxodermea

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himantariidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmatogaster

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmatogaster_subterranea

 

Geez, wasn't easy, was trying to find "biology" for easy access but it wasn'thelping

 

How do you know the amount of inbound links?

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Education_Centre (should be easy)

How do you know the amount of inbound links?

You can click "What Links Here" in the sidebar for any article to see all inbound links. It's also useful for working backwards when golfing to a hard-to-reach destination.

 

 

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Manningham-Buller,_Baroness_Manningham-Buller (head spy in Great Britain in the mid 2000s)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_world_service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Waterford_Girl (a 1999 drama-comedy film set in Nova Scotia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Waterford,_Nova_Scotia

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Education_Centre

 

 

Breton Education Centre has three inbound links: "List of schools in Nova Scotia", "New Waterford, Nova Scotia", and "Coal Bowl (basketball tournament)". That didn't give me too much to work with, so I just went with geography.

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congress_of_Rastatt (plenty of inbound links on this one, mostly history-related)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrovsk,_Perm_Krai (random Article-a town in Russia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

Surprisingly not direct link to the Germany article so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

Of course stupid me, Germany didn't exist in 1797

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_of_the_Rhine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastatt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congress_of_Rastatt

 

New http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett_Rebellion

Start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarrie_Dall (Australian football player, born in 1887)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_public_school_football_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England (Henry VIII's son)

End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kett%27s_Rebellion

 

New: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pruitt-Igoe_Myth (fairly challenging - looks like only 3 actual articles link to it)

Begin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Chaffey (chaplin in royal airforce of UK)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt-Igoe

End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pruitt-Igoe_Myth

 

Not to hard, might have even gotten faster into St. Louis if I skimmed the Afghanistan page for military bases in the US me thinks, no?

 

New: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithoctona (HA, biology again, 2 inbound links, have fun!)

 

 

 

 

How do you know the amount of inbound links?

You can click "What Links Here" in the sidebar for any article to see all inbound links. It's also useful for working backwards when golfing to a hard-to-reach destination.
 

 

owwwww, seems nice. Don't use it thou, not challanging enough

 

I do tend to go for the various link-bar's on the bottom of each page, they make skipping a couple links easier.

Start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyposmocoma_pallidipalpis (hey, another Biology article. )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoboscidae

End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithoctona

 

New article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cortana

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Gogoberidze

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Malle (made a film at that same festival)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(video_game_series)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cortana

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_X2010

Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Jayhawk (fight son of university of Kansas)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kansas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kansas_School_of_Engineering

-- Alumni: Robert J. Eaton (ME 1963), retired DaimlerChrysler AG Chairman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaimlerChrysler_AG#Merger_with_Chrysler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_in_Formula_One

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Racing

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_X2010

 

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goima

 

enjoy!

Start:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_Conspiracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya (some of the record holders there are from Kenya)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Tanzania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondoa_District

End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goima

 

New: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijiao,_Guangdong

Random Article-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollyvades [subsect of Eastern Orthodox]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%E2%80%93Zhuhai_Intercity_Railway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijiao_Railway_Station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijiao,_Foshan  (Final page, is a redirect)

 

New Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Coventry_(F98)