Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Puzzle No. 4: "From
Friedrich von Hayek to Salma Hayek"
Wanna play? Click for the
rules.
This week's puzzle was
submitted by
Slate
reader Greg Ransom, a devotee of Nobel
Prize-winning Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek. Ransom challenges you to
get from his page on von Hayek to this page celebrating movie siren Salma Hayek, star of Desperado , Fools Rush In , and
the forthcoming Dogma .
We did it in eight links. If
you can tie or beat that, e-mail your solution (with instructions and URLs) to
[email protected] by noon ET Tuesday. (All submissions will become the
property of
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and will be published at
Slate
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discretion.
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may publish your name on its site in connection
with your submission.)
Results will be announced
Thursday, March 19, at about 5 p.m. PT, along with a new puzzle. Readers are
also invited to submit their own puzzles (along with a solution path).
Happy surfing!
Solution
to Puzzle No. 3: "Yo Mama to Yo-Yo Ma"
Last week
we asked readers to get from this
page of "yo mama" jokes to this page on cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 13 links or less. Solutions came
from as far afield as Brazil. The winner, Ken Shirriff, managed the task in
just seven links. Here's how he did it:
From Yo
Mama, click music . This takes you to ...
John's Music
Page. Click Sony Music WWW Server to go ...
here. Then,
click Cool Links . You will find yourself ...
at this site,
where you should click unfURLed .
From here, click M in the
"Artists Index," ...
and in the browsable
artist index, click Ma, Yo-Yo , which will lead you ...
here. Finally, click Yo-Yo Ma Biography .
You're done in seven links.
Congratulations to Shirriff for running home to Ma quicker than everybody
else.
--Seth
Stevenson
