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# Wiki Game Solver
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For those who dont know what the Wiki Game is: [The Wiki Game](http://thewikigame.com) is an online game where you attempt to navigate through wikipedia from a start page to a goal page using as few other pages as possible. Once i was shown the Wiki Game by my friend, and after i realised that I really wasn't very good at it, I looked into how the system worked, and how I could beat it.
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I couldnt see how the back end worked, but after playing a few games and checking what happened on the page,the way that the game was won was when the iframe was at the final page location, or at least a clone of it on their servers with extra querystring information.
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With this information, I started to write some javascript that would change the location of the iframe to the goal. Fortunately for me, there was already a link to the real winning page, so I could use that to construct the final URL, and direct the iframe to it, meaning I was able to win the game in 1 turn.
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## Source
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Naturally, the source for this was written in javascript, and relies heavily on the fact that the wiki game uses jQuery so I can plug into components and events really easily. The code can be found in the GitHub gists below. Both the standard and compact versions are available.
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<script src="https://gist.github.com/RealOrangeOne/7da9a3dd1bf90ecdf7be.js"></script>
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## Usage
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1. Start a new game on [Wiki Game](http://thewikigame.com/speed-race), __don't__ press start!
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2. Open your browser's developers console. This will vary from browser.
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3. Open the Javascript console
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4. Paste the compact version of the code there, and execute it (press enter)
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5. Congratulations, you just won!
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If you want to win more games, just re-paste the code, it works as often as you like!
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### Disclamier
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As I experienced whilst developing this, the people that play Wiki Game don't tend to like people cheating. There were a lot of people getting very annoyed whilst I was developing and testing. So please use this at your own risk! At the moment I don't think there is any kind of banning system, but be warned!
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