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Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer
- stefuuuun 5y agoCreated using Plasmic.app, Next.js, Pusher, Upstash and Vercel :)
- sigmaprimus 5y agoThis is a neat idea, I tried getting from "Soup" to "Superman" but got stuck down a rabbit hole in Academy Awards. Have You made a solver for this game? I wonder if Cloudfare would take exception to such a thing?
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- stefuuuun 5y agoThanks! Difficult to leave the Academy Awards once you entered them.. Solver in regards to what? :) Wikipedia pages are loaded on the front-end and I haven't encountered a rate-limit so far. reply
- sigmaprimus 5y agoI was thinking a solver that found the most efficient, least number of hops to reach target word from seed word. Maybe it is an NP Hard problem? This also reminds me of 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon. I could see this going over well for an Online "socially distanced" game night, or possibly a classroom activity to encourage efficient research techniques.
- mumintrollet 5y agoThere is a solver at https://github.com/jwngr/sdow https://github.com/jwngr/sdow, fittingly called Six Degrees of Wikipedia :)
- binwiederhier 5y agoThis is fun. I did Phil->Germany. I'll suggest to my colleagues. I bet it's more fun racing together.