Six Degrees of Wikipedia

[GhastMaster]

I occasionally find playing a fun game by myself.

It works very much the same as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. However I click links in Wikipedia articles to get from one to the other. I do not limit myself to six links. I just try to get there with as few steps as possible. I do not use the search function, any of the common page elements on the left side, or external links.

Example: Cantina to Alpha Centauri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_...anchester)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aerospace_museums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Sp...or_Complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri

I think this could be a fun challenge for children or a group competition. Getting to rather obscure articles would be more difficult of course. Restricting "List" pages would make it more challenging.

While writing this I found a wikipedia article for this exact subject. There is a whole page for wikipedia games.

Interestingly, some chains can take many more steps to link in reverse.