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The Wiki Game

Posted by Zonk on from the wiki-this dept.

Dan Smith writes "A new nerdy Internet activity recently popped up at Amherst College called the "Wiki Game". It works off of Wikimedia's amazingly popular electronic encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The Wiki Game is simple, doesn't require any registrations and gives your brain a thorough workout. Although the instructions suggest at least two people to play it, it's very easy to play solo. The instruction "manual" is (naturally) posted on Wikipedia: The Wiki Game."

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  1. Re:Alt-X? by aj50 · · Score: 5, Informative
    I've never heard of Alt-X before... it doesn't do anything on Safari. Is this some kind of weird shortcut I've never heard of before which seeks out and clicks the 'random' link of whatever page you're on?

    No, its written into the HTML code. The author of the website can assign an Alt-letter combination to any link or form item using the ACCESSKEY attribute.

    More information here

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  2. Play solo by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 5, Funny
    Although the instructions suggest at least two people to play it, it's very easy to play solo

    just like sex.

  3. Find the filth by Kidbro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a bit sad, but back in my web developer days (this must have been 1998) I and a couple of colleagues played a similar game we called Find the filth.
    The idea was very simple. Everybody starts at a reletively "clean" site (big corporations or government agencies were normal targets). You were just allowed to click links - never use your bookmarks or type URLs in directly.
    The first person to find porn won.

    I don't think it ever took more than two minutes ;)

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