Move over Wordle. The Wikipedia Game involves navigating from one page to another in the least number of steps. A new puzzle is released each day and you can share the result with your friends and family.
Having been recently inspired by Wordle (non-additive and social) I decided to think back to games I played at school that could be adapted into a simple web application. The game that came to mind was the Wikipedia game. This game simply involves navigating from one Wikipedia page to another using as few steps/links as possible.
I was disappointed with the ad-heavy, slow implementations on the web and decided to recreate this very simple game using only Next JS and the Wikipedia API (deployed using Vercel). One new challenge is set every day and you can share your results to see if you can beat your friends/family.
Here is my score for today:
Wordle ➡️ So Long, Farewell ⏰ 03:42 🦶 6
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If you have any feedback / questions / enjoy it / didn’t enjoy then please let me know :-)
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