Six degrees of separation / Wikipedia

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Ha! Got one! I like this game.

Affair:
1) John F. Kennedy
2) Massachusetts
3) Pennsylvania
4) List of counties in Pennsylvania
5) Venango County, Pennsylvania

New target:

Venango County, Pennsylvania -> C++

[dr.walrus]

Easy.

Venango County, Pennsylvania
1. Yale University
2. Ivy League
3. MIT
4. Digital computer
5. C++

C++ > Ham hock

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Nice. Again, completely different route. Out of curiosity, how about the initiator post what their route was once each step is solved? Here's mine for the last, I'll edit my previous post.

Venango County, Pennsylvania:
1) 2000 United States Census
2) Microdata (statistics)
3) Metadata
4) XML
5) OpenOffice.org
6) C++

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Wow, ok, that took quite a bit longer.

C++:
1) 1998
2) Germany
3) German cuisine
4) List of German dishes
5) Eisbein
6) Ham hock

Next challenge:

Ham hock -> President of Finland

[mDust]

Ham hock -> President of Finland

Ham hock:
1)German Language
2)European Union
3)Member State of the European Union
4)Finland
5)Commander-in-Chief
6)President of Finland

Next:
President of Finland -> Bioshock 2

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Damn, that was supposed to take longer.

Here was mine:

Ham Hock:
1) Hog
2) Heart of Greed
3) DVD region code
4) Barack Obama
5) Martti Ahtisaari
6) President of Finland

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Gotcha!

President of Finland:
1) Finland
2) France
3) List of companies of France
4) Arkane Studios
5) BioShock 2

New challenge:

BioShock 2 -> Lemmatisation

[artoodeeto]

Bioshock 2:
1) Biopunk
2) portmanteau
3) linguistics
4) grammar
5) inflection
6) lemmatized

took a bit, but I got there

Lemmatisation > Grand Piano

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Interesting! Here was mine:

Bioshock 2:
1) Garry Schyman
2) Gustav Mahler
3) Franz Joseph I of Austria
4) Slovak language
5) Inflection
6) Lemmatisation

It really is amazing how such distinct paths can exist between two such different topics...and for every topic pair so far too! I'd take a crack at that grand piano, but I really need to get to sleep now...3am over here and I have a meeting at work with..idk, some big important person..I should probably figure out who before then.. tomorrow..crap..today at 9am. So, later then.

[Trace]

I wonder if I could make a program to do this.
Test each link and each link off of each link.