Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I adore Wikipedia, I make a point of reading the main page every day, and seeing what's of interest. I have fallen victim to the curse of Wikipedia many times, as I'm sure many people have. You know what I mean, you'll start off by looking up that person what played that role in that movie and end up reading about the history of gem mining in Afghanistan...two hours later. :P

Today, however, I've discovered a new great game. Picture the scene: A mousey is chomping on some toast but wishes to look up some facts on Wikipedia about the Super Bowl. However, that would require putting the toast down to retrieve the keyboard (I don't have a computer desk in the lounge, so the keyboard has to rest on my lap). The mousey does not wish to do this. So she eyes the main page and spots a story about the coach of the Atlanta Hawks. She clicks on that link and goes to the page, where she finds a link to the NBA. Within that page, is a link to the general United States of America entry so she goes to that, where she finds a link to a page about American sports. Clicking that takes her to a page all about the NFL and within that is the link to the Super Bowl entry!

Toast chomped, Super Bowl stuff found, keyboard not used - all in seven clicks of a mouse. The mousey was highly amused :)

I suspect there could be a good challenge game in that. Pick a random subject, see how many clicks it takes you to get to a page about it, using ONLY the links available for that day on the main page :) I'm sure you can do it in seven clicks or less with a bit of practice :D