The Hitler Game

10 July 2021, 08:29 AM

Mary Anna

Mine was a gimme, because the random article was "National Democratic Party, Georgia." (Not the Georgia in the US, but the one that used to be part of the Soviet Union.)

I hit "Nationalism" to get to "Nazi Germany" and thus to "Hitler." There may have been an even more direct way that I missed.

The only wrinkle was that I had to spend a few minutes on "Nationalism" to find "Nazi Germany." I didn't expect that link to be hard to find at all, since I believe "Nazi" derives from "National Socialist."

It was so hard to find "Nazi," buried as it was under references to things like "anti-colonialist nationalism" and "Jewish nationalism," that I suspected the Wikipedia editors of having certain political leanings. But I was just scanning a long article. Perhaps I simply overlooked the Nazi references that I had expected to be so easy to find.

10 July 2021, 10:25 AM

Piano*Dad

What's an articule?

Ia that a article you ridicule?

10 July 2021, 01:47 PM

RealPlayer

quote:
Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
What's an articule?

Ia that a article you ridicule?

An artistically talented molecule?

--------------------------------
“It's hard to win an argument with a smart person. It's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." -- Bill Murray

10 July 2021, 02:00 PM

wtg

Abetz --> Otto Abetz --> Adolf Hitler

Otto Abetz, for those like myself who had never heard of him before, was German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II.

--------------------------------
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb

Bazootiehead-in-training

10 July 2021, 02:31 PM

jodi

We’re is the random option?

10 July 2021, 03:01 PM

wtg

Left side of the page, near the top, under the Wikipedia globe.

Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article

10 July 2021, 04:19 PM

pianojuggler

Five moves exactly:

Omiodes odontosticta

Moth

German language

Germany

(Nazi Seizure of Power, directs to…)
Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Adolph Hitler

If I had gone farther down the Germany page, I could have skipped the fourth one.

--------------------------------
pj, citizen-poster, unless specifically noted otherwise.

mod-in-training.

pj@ermosworld∙com

All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.

11 July 2021, 06:41 PM

pianojuggler

Neobuthus factorio

Somaliland

Ethiopian Airlines

Lufthansa

Nazi Germany

Adolph Hitler

--------------------------------
pj, citizen-poster, unless specifically noted otherwise.

mod-in-training.

pj@ermosworld∙com

All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.

11 July 2021, 07:10 PM

jon-nyc

Anything that has a geographic tie-in or links to any country is usually just one or two clicks from Hitler. Invariably a country entry has a history section, which usually will mention WW2.

It might be a more interesting challenge to find an entry that *isn’t* within 5 clicks of Hitler.

11 July 2021, 09:11 PM

pianojuggler

I figured the same, jon, but I keep finding mentions of countries or of WWII that are not links.

--------------------------------
pj, citizen-poster, unless specifically noted otherwise.

mod-in-training.

pj@ermosworld∙com

All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.

14 July 2021, 11:40 PM

pianojuggler

Three moves:

The Idol of Paris (1914 film)

Ideal Film Company

First World War [redirects to World War I]

Adolph Hitler

--------------------------------
pj, citizen-poster, unless specifically noted otherwise.

mod-in-training.

pj@ermosworld∙com

All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.