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A Wikirace (IPA: /'w?.ki.r??s/) is a race between any number of participants, using
links to travel from one Wikipedia page to another. The first person to reach the
destination page, or the person that reaches the destination using the fewest
links, wins the race. Intermediary pages may also be required.

Contents
1 How to Wikirace
1.1 Rules
1.2 Optional
1.3 Good Target Pages
1.4 Helper Pages
1.5 Easy Pages
2 Alternate - Point Based Rules (Wik's Degrees of Separation)
3 Online racetracks
4 Strategies
5 Wikiracing websites
How to Wikirace
To Wikirace, first select a page off the top of your head. Using a randomized page
works well, as well as the featured article of the day. This will be your beginning
page. Next choose a destination page. Generally, this destination page is something
very unrelated to the beginning page. For example, going from apple to orange would
not be challenging, as you would simply start at the apple page, click a wikilink
to fruit and then proceed to orange. A race from Jesus Christ to Subway
(restaurant) would be more of a challenge, however. For a true test of skill,
attempt Roman Colosseum to Orthographic projection if you want a very, very
difficult game. Once you have selected a beginning page and a destination page, the
race begins and the first person to reach the destination page wins. Finally, the
racers are usually located in the same room, to be sure that no one has cheated.
Wikiraces are common in classroom environments in which kids are bored.

Rules
Disambiguation pages are allowed to be used.
Obviously, editing your beginning page to have a link to the destination page is
not allowed. Not only does this defeat the point of the race, but it will
compromise the integrity of Wikipedia and anger the Wikipedia users.
A player may or may not use the "Back" button or any other feature of their browser
which would allow them to view a Wikipedia article and then back-track to the
previous one when one doesn't find the link that they were hoping for. Again, make
sure everyone in the Wikirace is clear on the rules. Some games allow the use of
the "Back" button but count this as a link clicked.
A player may not use the Special:AllPages page to directly find the target page.
Using the "find" function can spoil the race, as you do not need to read through
anything and are just letting the computer do the work for you.
The Categories bar may or may not be used.
Using the "Navigation", "Interaction", or "Toolbox" links is also not allowed.
The use of the "See also" links is optional and can be avoided for a longer and
more difficult race.
Optional
Using a browser's find option. Just make sure everyone in the Wikirace knows
whether the find command is allowed or not.
Not using geographical locations makes the race longer and more challenging.
Good Target Pages
Dab (dance) Almost impossible
Ikea very difficult to find
Bongbong Marcos only accessible from a certain dictator.
Mystery Seeker- very, very hard to find. Found by pixar1995 on 12/10/19
Pokemon - you'd be surprised. Only a few links work.
Smoothie King - Impossible to find if you don't know how to get there!
ECDL - Evil to find when not using categories. Requires going totally off topic to
reach.
Charlotte Dacre - Several links, but they're almost all years!
Goderich Airport - Nearly impossible, requires either going completely off topic,
or using some mad wiki geography skills, scanning across Ontario.
Mashimaro - Very hard to find, especially since all of the obvious topics don't
link to it.
Mother insult - Almost impossible
Communism- Have to bounce around between obvious pages to find!
Keyhole - Seems quite easy at first glance, but not linked to anything obvious.
Utility pole - Has almost no links to it but it is possible.
Preparation H - Avoid searching this one in very public places.
Hot Pockets - Very hard, indeed.
IAR Systems - Nearly impossible, as there are nearly no links to it.
bananaman - Yeah speaks for itself.
Leawarra railway station, Melbourne - Go try this one, I think it's almost
impossible!
Fu Manchu - not impossible, but very difficult without using back arrows.
flip flop - not impossible, but very difficult.
OtterBox - not impossible, but obvious leads don't pan out
bingo - not easy for newbies, but is for experts.
Bread crumb - not impossible, but harder than you think.
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher - most of the obvious leads don't seem to work, but it
is possible.
Altoids - Average time: 5 minutes.
Gurn - At least 12 links known, extremely tough.
Ingrown nail - Very difficult, many disgusting images.
Tinder - Almost impossible.
Doorbell - Harder than you think.
S'well - Has very few usable links.
Franz Ferdinand - Not a lot there
TLR10 - Good Luck
Wikipedia:Wikirace - Has only been documented ELEVEN TIMES! (Hall of Fame: Neatski,
Glm705, One in a Zillion, 4thfounder, ThatGuy, New Shifter, kidneys3,
Elitemagikarp, Maxio68, STAPVARS, and Pixar1995)
Home Depot - Mildly difficult
Hello Kitty - Believed to be difficult, but an easy route for experts.
Topit - Nearly impossible, only 2 links known (excluding this one)
Kittredge (name) - Practically impossible, there is only 1 link to this page. It's
in the "See Also" section of "Kittridge", which is also a page with only 1 link to
it.
Touhou Project Good luck, it's mildly difficult as the only links are within Japan.
SCP Foundation Only a few links work!
Helper Pages
Continent- can get you anywhere in the world!
Adolf Hitler- linked to from Germany. One can arrive at almost any race-related
subject thus.
United States of America - It will get you anywhere within it!
Easy Pages
Dictators are easily accessible from the page of their country. The country page is
accessible from their contine

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