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From the Mona Lisa to a hot dog,without leaving Wikipedia.
One start page, one destination, nothing but links. Daily challenge, solo or one-on-one, with games of up to 20 coming soon: WikiChallenge plays right on the real Wikipedia.
Free · Chrome extension for desktop · No password
Your route
How it works
It adds WikiChallenge to Chrome. It only wakes up during a game.
You get 10 seconds to study it. Then the start page opens, for everyone at the same instant.
Wikipedia's own links, nothing else. First to arrive wins; in the daily challenge, the shortest route does.
LiveTheir clicks and their distance from the start, live. Never their page.
You win!The game ends for everyone the moment someone wins.
RouteAt the end, the replay shows everyone's route.
Example game: the destination, Hot dog, shows for 10 seconds, then the start page, Mona Lisa, opens for everyone. Four clicks later (Louvre, Paris, Washington, D.C., Hot dog), you arrive first while Léa's counter climbs: YOU WIN!, and your route is revealed.
The difference
No rebuilt pages, no iframe: you play on wikipedia.org, with its real pages and up-to-date links.
Head-to-head today, up to 20 soon with Premium. Pages open for everyone at the same instant, and the game ends for all the moment someone wins.
Their clicks and their distance from the start, live. Never their page. At the end, the replay shows everyone's route.
Classic today. Coming with Premium: Shortest path, Fewest clicks, Hardcore with no Ctrl+F, Polyglot, and page options à la carte.
Practise alone, take on a friend, or measure yourself against everyone on today's pair.
Daily challenge
One pair, the same for everyone, new every day at noon (Paris time). One attempt. Shortest route wins. No account needed, just the extension.
With friends
Create a game, send the code or invite a friend by username: they get pinged even with the panel closed. The pages open for both of you at the same instant, each of you watches the other's counter climb, and the game ends when the first one arrives.
Coming with Premium: one subscription will cover everyone, the host's. Your friends will play on a free account.
Testimonials
On WikiMasters, I collect pages. On WikiChallenge, I link them up to find my way. Such a treat to land on some unlikely article!
With the team, over our Friday lunch break, we play game after game. It's smooth, it's fast, and we always want to start another one. Hard to get back to work.
At the end of class, the whole class plays the daily challenge. What I love is that every day my students read articles they'd never have opened in any other context. Then, comparing our routes together, I often find a link to the curriculum.
In interviews, I suggest a game of WikiChallenge. In ten minutes I see how a candidate thinks, bounces back and uses what they know. For me it's a very good indicator of resourcefulness and general knowledge.
Yes: the daily challenge, solo and head-to-head games are free. Premium is coming soon (€4/month or €38.40/year) for games of up to 20 players and every mode.
Not for the daily challenge: you can play it as a guest. Solo, games with friends and the ranking need an account: an email and a username, no password. You sign in with a link or a code sent by email.
Google Chrome on a computer, only. There's no mobile version. On your phone, the "Send me the link" button at the bottom of the screen lets you pick WikiChallenge up on your computer.
No. Everything is free today: a free account is all it takes to play with friends. With Premium, the host will pay: friends join the game on a free account, whatever the mode.
Same idea, different game. With WikiChallenge you play on the real Wikipedia site, not on rebuilt pages. The game ends for everyone when the first player arrives, and you get the daily challenge, solo and head-to-head; games of up to 20 and the other modes are coming with Premium. The catch: WikiChallenge only runs on Chrome for desktop. The details are on the comparison page.
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