The Sand Trap

12:22 AM

Discuss

Also,

user

Wut

I'm on that side of the internet again

user

Oh no

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Unrelated String

2:44 AM

oh yes

emanresu A

3:28 AM

Oh no

4:09 AM

found this escape room thing on desmos, dang: student.desmos.com/join/pyuab5

ive gotten decently far into it, but ive reached a roadbloack

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5:19 AM

ayy i beat it

that was actually pretty fun ngl

emanresu A

5:47 AM

Everything's really laggy for me and I have no idea what works and what doesn't

By luck, I have the ice, the flashlight and the battery (?)

battery? dont recall there being a battery...

did u unlock downstairs yet?

6:46 AM

@emanresuA hmmm its not that laggy for me... also its a puzzle, i think u have to figure out what works and what doesnt urself

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12:05 PM

CMC: guess which countries are most linked-to on Wikipedia

(no cheating by looking up the list!)

United States, China and Russia in no particular order?

sgniteerG

United States is #1

China is pretty low

CMegaC: Give me a Wikipedia article with at least 3 links to other Wikipedia articles that does NOT link back to Philosophy.

I have a program that can check that, incidentally

You mean one where there is no possible train of links which leads back to Philosophy?

12:13 PM

correct

How about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random?

Got en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…, plugging it in to the algorithm...

@Ginger No, probably not, because that links to a country, which will have lots of links

well, that title seems to not work with my code :/

trying again...

probably all places will link to countries, and from there you're fucked

12:15 PM

got en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_H._Bay, plugging it in...

so you need something with no links to any places

Got to Philosophy in 50 steps:
Elihu H. Bay -> South Carolina Supreme Court -> U.S. state -> United States -> Geographic coordinate system -> Spherical coordinate system -> Mathematics -> Ancient Greek language -> Greek language -> Modern Greek -> Dialect -> Latin -> Classical language -> Language -> Communication -> Self -> Consciousness -> Sentience -> Emotion -> Mental state -> Mind -> Phenomenon -> Romanization of Greek -> Transliteration -> Writing system -> Orthography -> Convention (norm) -> Outline of physical science -> Natural science -> Branches of science -> Science -> Latin lan…

It can also select a random page itself

I'd've thought you can get from United States to Philosophy in a lot fewer steps than that

Here's one for a beetle: (and also the last one because off-topic):
Freadelpha murrayi -> Beetle -> Insect -> Latin -> Classical language -> Language -> Communication -> Self -> Consciousness -> Sentience -> Emotion -> Mental state -> Mind -> Phenomenon -> Greek language -> Modern Greek -> Dialect -> Ancient Greek -> Ancient Greece -> Romanization of Greek -> Transliteration -> Writing system -> Orthography -> Convention (norm) -> Outline of physical science -> Natural science -> Branches of science -> Science -> Latin language -> Italic languages -> Indo-European languages -> Language fami…

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12:24 PM

@Ginger imagine needing 50 steps

@lyxal Oh, so you did it in less?

Show me

St. Philip's Church (Charleston, South Carolina)
Episcopal Church (United States)
Anglican Communion
Church of England
God in Christianity
Augustine of Hippo
Philosopher
Philosophy

By using only the first link?

12:25 PM

yep

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_H._Bay to philosophy in 8

9 including the start

but I don't usually count the start

nope, invalid

St. Philip's Church (Charleston, South Carolina) is not the first link in Elihu H. Bay

Why does it have to be the first link

@Ginger oh lol I was going for optimised route

That's the restriction

You never mentioned that

12:27 PM

by "first link" I thought you meant "the link I gave"

not the first <a> on the page

me too

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