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Life & fun · February 26, 2018

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.

Six Degrees of Wikipedia launched on February 26, 2018 with 1,176 votes, #1 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a game that challenges players to find connections between two random Wikipedia articles by clicking through related links. Launched in 2018, it draws inspiration from the "six degrees of separation" concept, testing how quickly users can bridge disparate topics. The game is designed for anyone interested in Wikipedia exploration and word games who enjoys discovering unexpected relationships between seemingly unrelated subjects.

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