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Daily challenge #40 · 18 October 2026 · English Wikipedia

Mac OS Central European encoding → Pope Pius V, Peterborough

On 18 October 2026 WikiParty players started on Mac OS Central European encoding and had to find Pope Pius V and Peterborough in any order using only Wikipedia links. 7 players played it and 7 found every target. The fastest route took 2:29 with 14 clicks.

The articles

  • Start
    Mac OS Central European encodingMac OS Central European is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in Central European and Southeastern European languages that use the Latin script. This encoding is also known as Code Page 10029. IBM assigns code page/CCSID 1282 to this encoding. This codepage contains diacritical letters that ISO 8859-2 does not have, and vice versa. Although a few of the characters which are in Mac OS Central European but not Mac OS Roman are also supported by Mac OS Croatian, these are not encoded at the same positions.
  • Target
    Pope Pius VPope Pius V, OP, born Antonio Ghislieri, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 7 January 1566 to his death, in May 1572. He was an inquisitor and is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the implementation of the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman Rite within the Latin Church, known as the Tridentine mass. Pius V declared Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church. As a cardinal, Ghislieri gained a reputation for putting orthodoxy before personalities, prosecuting eight French bishops for heresy. He also stood firm against nepotism, rebuking his predecessor Pope Pius IV to his face when he wanted to make a 13-year-old member of his family a cardinal and subsidize a nephew from the papal treasury. By means of the papal bull of 1570, Regnans in Excelsis, Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. He also arranged the formation of the Holy League, an alliance of Catholic states to combat the advancement of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe. Although outnumbered, the Holy League famously defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory. Biographers report that as the Battle of Lepanto ended, Pius rose and went over to a window, where he stood gazing toward the East. "...[L]ooking at the sky, he cried out, 'A truce to business; our great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given the Christian army'."
  • Target
    PeterboroughPeterborough is a cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is 74 miles (119 km) north of London, on the River Nene. As of the 2021 census, the Peterborough urban area had a population of 192,178, In 2023, the Peterborough City Council estimated the population of the wider district to be 219,510. Human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the city centre. There is evidence of Roman occupation. The Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, Medeshamstede, which later became Peterborough Cathedral. In the 19th century, the population grew rapidly after the coming of the railway. The area became known for its brickworks and engineering. After the Second World War, industrial employment fell and growth was limited until Peterborough was designated a new town in the 1960s. The main economic sectors now are financial services and distribution. The city was the administrative centre of the Soke of Peterborough in the historic county of Northamptonshire, until the Soke was abolished in 1965. From 1965 to 1974, it formed part of the short-lived county of Huntingdon and Peterborough and since then has been part of Cambridgeshire. The cathedral city of Ely is 24 miles (39 km) east-southeast across the Fens and the university city of Cambridge is 30 miles (48 km) to the southeast. The local topography is flat and in places the land lies below sea level.

Results

7players
7found every target
4:55median finish time
17.0average clicks

Solutions

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Fastest route: 2:29 by Plato8888
  1. Mac OS Central European encoding
  2. Czech language
  3. Czech Republic
  4. Vatican City
  5. Pope
  6. List of popes
  7. Pope Pius V
  8. Italian language
  9. Italy
  10. United Kingdom
  11. Sport in the United Kingdom
  12. Football in England
  13. EFL Championship
  14. EFL League One
  15. Peterborough
Fewest clicks: 13 by Rusted_Owl
  1. Mac OS Central European encoding
  2. Central Europe
  3. Europe
  4. London
  5. England
  6. Ceremonial counties of England
  7. Cambridgeshire
  8. Peterborough
  9. Cambridge
  10. Roman Britain
  11. Great Britain
  12. Catholic Church
  13. Counter-Reformation
  14. Pope Pius V
Most used stepping stones

Articles between the start and the targets that the most players passed through:

  1. Cambridgeshire (5 players)
  2. Catholic Church (4 players)
  3. Central Europe (4 players)
  4. England (4 players)
  5. Italy (4 players)
  6. United Kingdom (4 players)
Most popular first click
  1. Central Europe (4 players)

Leaderboard

#PlayerTargetsTimeClicks
1Plato88882/22:2914
2Wind_Cobra2/23:2918
3AndreiWithAnIAtTheEnd2/24:4321
4VichePlayer2/24:5514
5Rusted_Owl2/26:0913
6Noble_Kangaroo2/27:4725
7Wind_Koala2/211:5214