But some love it so much that they’ve turned it into a game!
No, not editing the articles itself.
Apparently, a rogue AI has taken control of Wikipedia and is corrupting article titles.
Each game starts with all letters missing, indicating the article title’s word through blank tiles.
You’ll find the description or clue for the article title right below this.
You have six lives for each game, with each wrong guess losing a life.
Players have the option to register for an account to track their progress.
In a Guest account, you’ll have to start from the easiest skill each time.
Linkdle attempts the same, although the puzzle isn’t as easy.
Like Linkdle, the objective is to go from a starting article to a target article.
But here, speed matters a lot more than taking the least amount of clicks.
It’s an online race against other players!
Each round of The Wiki Game lasts 120 seconds.
If you finish within 120 seconds, you’re able to start another round if time permits.
That was the premise of Redactle, which has now been shut down.
But a fan made a free alternative called Redactle Unlimited, with a few better features.
you’re able to quickly scroll to these through the right sidebar.
As you could imagine, it’s a time-consuming game given the sheer number of words that are redacted.
It’s oddly engrossing, but a pretty geeky pursuit.
It’s free and works great on both desktop and phone screens.
Using this information, you gotta put it in the timeline at the bottom of the screen.
Every time you place a card, WikiTrivia will show its date.
you’re able to now also poke the card to flip it and get a short description.
And you’ve got the option to click through to read the full Wikipedia article as well.
WikiTrivia tracks your streaks to tell you how many cards you got right before your game ended.
It’s truly one of thebest apps to make history exciting.
It’s a good idea to create a bookmarks folder and save these articles to read later.
