Find the Hitler

Scott5114 · March 24, 2011, 06:22:32 PM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=437.msg10185#msg10185">Quote from: ccexplore on 2011-03-24 03:18:27

You misunderstood namida. He's talking about the variation where you end with Lemmings while starting with a random article, ie.

?? → ... → Lemmings.

Oh.

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/embarrassed.gif" alt=":-[" title="Embarrassed" class="smiley" /> I imagine that would be much more difficult. Most things have a least one country link that you can follow to Germany and thus Hitler. There aren't a lot of things that would need to link to Lemmings.

Is using Special:Whatlinkshere a cheat?

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ccexplore · March 24, 2011, 08:23:09 PM

I guess using special:whatlinkshere is not the way the original game was intended to be played, but I already used it once in this thread for assistance with creating entries into "Hitler" that doesn't go through the obvious candidates. It's just a forum game, go do whatever you feel makes it fun for you and everyone else.

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I do believe though that it's a bit of a cheat to use links involving pages that aren't really articles, for example linking to/from things under Category: or Template: or User: or even Special: etc. Both endpoints in a link should be article pages only.

Minim · March 25, 2011, 07:07:11 PM

I usually edit wiki rather than play this game.

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Anyway, here's my first attempt. (And not a bad one I don't think!)

Mount Royal, New Jersey
United States
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

finlay · March 27, 2011, 01:03:59 PM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=437.msg10183#msg10183">Quote from: Scott5114 on 2011-03-23 20:25:41

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=437.msg9793#msg9793">Quote from: namida on 2011-02-04 19:58:15
...allow me to state the obvious, and suggest Lemmings.

ccexplore posted a shorter one, going through Offenbach, but I went
Lemmings → Rockstar North → United Kingdom → Germany → Hitler

Ahem...
Lemmings → Richard Wagner → Adolf Hitler

ccexplore · March 28, 2011, 09:48:06 PM

Good catch! Once again, music has proven to be quite the shortcut into Hitler.

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Gronkling · March 28, 2011, 10:19:24 PM

I'll try Lemmings 2.

Lemmings 2 → Musical instrument → Curt Sachs → Germany → Adolf Hitler

Music again...

finlay · March 31, 2011, 05:08:24 PM

If it comes to it,

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Lemmings 2: The Tribes → Lemmings (video game) → Richard Wagner → Adolf Hitler

is shorter.

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What you need to do is find a two-step link.

(Incidentally, even if you take out the trivial solution of going via Lemmings, I can find the three-step link

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Lemmings 2: The Tribes → Cannon → World War II → Adolf Hitler

so yours still isn't the shortest

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Matt · April 10, 2011, 01:47:47 AM

Wola Lipecka
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
East Prussia
Germany
World War II
Adolf Hitler

finlay · April 11, 2011, 02:38:31 PM

Random article:
Nils Olsson → Sweden → Winter War → Adolf Hitler
Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1 → Roger Waters → World War II → Adolf Hitler

Not random:
Burj Khalifa → United Arab Emirates → World War II → Adolf Hitler

finlay · November 25, 2011, 01:18:01 AM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=437.msg10238#msg10238">Quote from: finlay on 2011-03-31 11:08:24

If it comes to it,
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Lemmings 2: The Tribes → Lemmings (video game) → Richard Wagner → Adolf Hitler
is shorter. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/winktounge.gif" alt=";P" title="Wink-Tongue" class="smiley" />

What you need to do is find a two-step link.

(Incidentally, even if you take out the trivial solution of going via Lemmings, I can find the three-step link
Quote
Lemmings 2: The Tribes → Cannon → World War II → Adolf Hitler
so yours still isn't the shortest http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" />)

It's been a while, but I thought I'd update with a couple of other ones:
Lemmings Paintball → Catapult → World War I → Adolf Hitler (3)
Lemmings Paintball → 1996 → Hitler Youth → Adolf Hitler (3)
Lemmings Paintball → 1996 → Artur Axmann → Adolf Hitler (the guy was the leader of the Hitler Youth and died in 1996) (3)

Christmas Lemmings → Christmas → South Tyrol → Adolf Hitler (3)

Oh No! More Lemmings → Sic → Appeal to ridicule → Reductio ad Hitlerum → Adolf Hitler (4)
Oh No! More Lemmings → Tutorial → Woodrow Wilson → World War I → Adolf Hitler (4)
Oh No! More Lemmings → Amiga → Japan → World War II → Adolf Hitler (4)
Oh No! More Lemmings → Amiga → Marilyn Monroe → (has the word "Hitler" in the text but not link

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Oh No! More Lemmings → Amiga → Czech Republic → Adolf Hitler (3)

All New World of Lemmings → Buzzard → Common Buzzard → Japan → World War II → Adolf Hitler (5) (or via Amiga, same as ONML)

Had enough now. I just used a tool to find the opposite way:
Adolf Hitler → Russia → The Nutcracker → Lemmings (video game) (3)

One other interesting one I found:
Lemmings → Rockstar North → Daily Mail → Adolf Hitler

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Nortaneous · December 08, 2011, 09:59:35 AM

Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad
Felipe Calderón
Catholic Church
Soviet Union
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

asbaarle · December 28, 2011, 08:47:49 PM

Unit (housing)
Statistics Canada
French language
Italy
Adolf Hitler

This is a fun game!

mobius · July 27, 2012, 01:29:42 AM

Random Article >> Lemmings
here are two and I didn't attempt to make the shortest list possible but more like the most random list possible. I didn't succeeded in either.

Surobi Nahgarhar
New York Times
video game
Atari
Atari ST
List of Atari ST games
Lemmings

here's one that's a random article to Lemmings but I also find Hitler on the way! (Getting to Scotland prooved to be more difficult than I imaged (why no links to Scotland?) and that didn't help anyway. Idk why I thought it would)

Liu Yudong
Senior Colonel
Kommodore
Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
Beer Hall Putsch
Germany
Europe
United Kingdom
History of Scotland
Red Clydeside
Riot Act
Crackdown
David Jones
Lemmings

mobius · August 05, 2012, 02:27:24 AM

I

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Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed
Norwegian Folktales
Denmark
Sydney's Opera House
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Arthur Phillip
Royal Marines
British Commandos
Immediate Reaction Cell
Logistics
Oxford English Dictionary
Guinness Book of World Records
Grand Theft Auto 4
Rockstar North
Lemmings

mobius · August 06, 2012, 03:32:12 AM

I love this game because I love randomness and you can learn stuff too

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Official Languages of the United Nations
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Sven Markelius
1939 New York World's Fair
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
John Ireland (Archbishop)
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Saint Patrick's Day Parade
Shamrock
motif
egg-and-dart
Ovolo
Dorians
Acient Greece
Spain
Galicia (Spain)
Dundee
Lemmings