I decided to play it myself to compare against the AIs; maybe it's just a really hard category?
Reasoning: OK, so, bradawl is a woodworking tool, and Kevin Bacon was in The Woodsman. Might be able to go from woodworking to wood to woodsman to the film to Kevin Bacon.
Without actually doing it, I'd naively assume "woodsman" would be an article under wood, but it wasn't. So I would've gotten dinged for an invalid path there. An actual path which does use this strategy, though, is this, which routes through "Lumberjack:"
Bradawl > Wood > Lumberjack > Woodsman > The Woodsman (film) > Kevin Bacon.
wow i love this. theres a similar game i started playing recently which is like the kevin bacon game but via the google images "see similar images" feature to eventually jump from one set of images to another. itd be interesting to see how well they do with this
The screwdriver disambiguation page (at least at the moment) doesn't link directly to Woody Woodpecker—it links to a 1941 short called _The Screwdriver_ and mentions (without a link) that it stars Woody Woodpecker.
I decided to play it myself to compare against the AIs; maybe it's just a really hard category?
Reasoning: OK, so, bradawl is a woodworking tool, and Kevin Bacon was in The Woodsman. Might be able to go from woodworking to wood to woodsman to the film to Kevin Bacon.
Without actually doing it, I'd naively assume "woodsman" would be an article under wood, but it wasn't. So I would've gotten dinged for an invalid path there. An actual path which does use this strategy, though, is this, which routes through "Lumberjack:"
Bradawl > Wood > Lumberjack > Woodsman > The Woodsman (film) > Kevin Bacon.
Interesting! Humanity wins another day.
wow i love this. theres a similar game i started playing recently which is like the kevin bacon game but via the google images "see similar images" feature to eventually jump from one set of images to another. itd be interesting to see how well they do with this
The screwdriver disambiguation page (at least at the moment) doesn't link directly to Woody Woodpecker—it links to a 1941 short called _The Screwdriver_ and mentions (without a link) that it stars Woody Woodpecker.
Oh, shit, good catch! I’ll update the article accordingly.