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title: Wiki Game solver
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template: projects
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slug: wiki-game-solver
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repo: https://gist.github.com/RealOrangeOne/7da9a3dd1bf90ecdf7be
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summary: Simple script to win the Wiki Game
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---
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[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.
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Not long after I was shown the it, I realised that I _really_ wasn't very good at it. After about 15 minutes of coming in last place all the time, I started to wonder how it worked, and how I could beat it.
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As it turns out, it really isn't very hard! It does require injecting some JS into the page, but it's not that much.
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## Usage
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1. Start a [new game](http://thewikigame.com/speed-race), __don't__ press start!
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2. Open your browser's developer console. This will vary from browser.
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3. Paste the compact version of the code (`wiki-game-solver.min.js`), and execute it (press enter)
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4. Congratulations, you just won!
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## How it works
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The game isn't open source, so I couldn't see how the back end worked, but after playing a few games and checking what happened on the page, I worked out what it was doing.
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The game was won when the iframe was at the final page location, or at least a clone of it on their servers with some extra querystring information.
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With this, I started to write something that would change the location of the iframe to the goal. Fortunately for me, the goal URL was on the page. So all it took was a little switcheroo to win!
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### Source
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The source for this was written in pure JS, 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="{{ article.repo }}.js"></script>
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### Disclaimer
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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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