Hyperlinked

Hyperlinked takes the old Wikipedia race, where you get from one article to another only by clicking the links inside the articles, and turns it into a single dated puzzle a day. The top of the screen shows the date, the start article, the target article and how many of your 10 clicks are left.

The article itself loads below in a familiar Wikipedia layout. You read, pick a link that seems to lead somewhere closer to the target, and keep going until you land on the target page or run out of clicks. The pairs are often far apart: a 2008 war documentary as the start and a little-known person as the target, so the fun is in finding a broad page that opens up the route.

The click limit is what sets it apart from open-ended Wikipedia races such as The Wiki Game Daily or Rabbit Hole, where the count is a score rather than a wall. Here every click is a resource, which rewards thinking before you click. It runs in the browser, needs no account and is free.