User:Malokai92/xkcd903

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Starting at random page: "When I Look Into Your Eyes" - 19 Firehouse->American->Federalism->Politics->Group decision making->Individual->Person->Human->Taxonomy->Science->Knowledge->Fact->Information->Finite->Infinite->Mathematics->Quantity->Property (philosophy)->Modern philosophy->Philosophy "Colombo Public Library" - 17 Sri Lanka->Indian subcontinent->Asia->Continent->Landmass->Landform->Earth science->Science...(+9) "Warabi city assembly election, 2007"- 19 Warabi, Saitama->Cities of Japan->Public administration->Politics...(+15) "Abánades" - 15 Province of Guadalajara->Provinces of Spain->Autonomous communities of Spain->Political divisions of Spain->Spanish Constitution of 1978->Constitution->State (polity)->Social sciences->Umbrella term->Subset->Mathematics...(+4) "GEOS (software)" - 9 Online and offline->Telecommunication->Information...(+6) "Arc-sur-Tille" - 20 Communes of France->Administrative division->Political division->Technical terminology->Vocabulary->Word->Language->Human...(+12) "Chinese Islamic cuisine" - 22 Hui people->List of ethnic groups in China->Ethnic group->Social group->Social cohesion->Term->Terminology->Word...(+14) "OFC U-20 Championship" - 24 Oceania Football Confederation->Association football->Team sport->Sport->Organization->Social group...(+18) "Katie Ford (CEO)" - 27 Ford Models->Modeling agency->Model (person)->Fashion->Costume party->Western culture->Culture->Alfred L. Kroeber->United States->Federalism...(+17)

Politics seems to be a catch-all for this. Of course the only time you won't get to philosophy is a loop since politics, mathematics, information, all get caught; philosophy will eventually loop as well, it has a short loop so it's hard not to catch it before a loop. We can say everything links eventually to Rationality before looping as well. So the contest is to see how many links before getting the highest scoring catch-all.

Catches

 * Mathematics (+4)
 * Information (+7)
 * State (polity) (+9)
 * Science (+10)
 * Word (+14)
 * Politics (+16)

Best Scores

 * Arc-sur-Tille (20) -- Relyk 10:31, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * OFC U-20 Championship (24) -- Jai . -  20:33, May 25 2011 (UTC)
 * Gyaca County (20) -- Brandnew. 21:10, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Katie Ford (CEO) (27) -- Jai . -  22:24, May 25 2011 (UTC)