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Daily challenge #47 · 25 October 2026 · English Wikipedia

King William's War → Directory (computing), Zaydism

On 25 October 2026 WikiParty players started on King William's War and had to find Directory (computing) and Zaydism in any order using only Wikipedia links. 5 players played it and 5 found every target. The fastest route took 5:14 with 13 clicks.

The articles

  • Start
    King William's WarKing William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697). It was the first of six colonial wars fought between New France and New England along with their respective Native allies before France ceded its remaining mainland territories in North America east of the Mississippi River in 1763. It is also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, the Mournful Decade, or the First Intercolonial War. For King William's War, neither England nor France thought of weakening its position in Europe to support the war effort in North America. New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy were able to thwart New England expansion into Acadia, whose border New France defined as the Kennebec River, now in southern Maine. According to the terms of the 1697 Peace of Ryswick, which ended the Nine Years' War, the boundaries and outposts of New France, New England, and New York remained substantially unchanged. The war was largely caused by the fact that the treaties and agreements that were reached at the end of the First Indian War (1675–1678) were not adhered to. In addition, the English were alarmed that the Indians were receiving French or maybe Dutch aid. The Indians preyed on the English and their fears by making it look as though they were with the French. The French were fooled as well, as they thought the Indians were working with the English. Those occurrences, in addition to the fact that the English considered the Indians as their subjects, despite the Indians' unwillingness to submit, eventually led to two conflicts, one of which was King William's War.
  • Target
    Directory (computing)In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure that contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories. On many computers, directories are known as folders or drawers, analogous to a workbench or the traditional office filing cabinet. The name derives from books like a telephone directory that lists the phone numbers of all the people living in a certain area. Files are organized by storing related files in the same directory. In a hierarchical file system, a directory contained inside another directory is called a subdirectory. The terms parent and child are often used to describe the relationship between a subdirectory and the directory in which it is cataloged, the latter being the parent. The top-most directory in such a filesystem, which does not have a parent of its own, is called the root directory. The freedesktop.org media type for directories within many Unix-like systems – including but not limited to systems using GNOME, KDE Plasma 5, or ROX Desktop as the desktop environment – is "inode/directory". This is not an IANA registered media type.
  • Target
    ZaydismZaydism, also referred to as Fiver Shi'ism, is a branch of Shia Islam, and sometimes considered the fifth school of Sunni law, that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd ibn Ali's unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate. Zaydism is one of the currently three main branches of Shi'ism, the other two being Twelverism and Ismailism. Zaydism is typically considered the Shia branch that is closest to Sunni Islam, although the "classical" form of Zaydism historically changed its stance on Sunni and Shia traditions multiple times, to the point where Zaydis' simply accepting Ali as a rightful successor to Muhammad was enough to consider them Shia. Zaydis regard rationalism as more important than Quranic literalism and historically were quite tolerant towards Shafi'i Sunnism, the jurisprudential school of about half of the Yemenis. Most of the world's Zaydis are located in northwestern Yemen and Najran in Saudi Arabia.

Results

5players
5found every target
7:49median finish time
20.8average clicks

Solutions

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Fastest route: 5:14 by Frost_Lion
  1. King William's War
  2. ISBN
  3. Ebook
  4. Desktop computer
  5. Disk storage
  6. Hard disk drive
  7. File system
  8. Directory (computing)
  9. Apple Developer
  10. Azerbaijan
  11. Islam in Azerbaijan
  12. Shia Islam
  13. Imamate in Zaydi doctrine
  14. Zaydism
Most used stepping stones

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

  1. Shia Islam (3 players)
  2. Asia (2 players)
  3. Continent (2 players)
  4. File system (2 players)
  5. Islam (2 players)
  6. MS-DOS (2 players)

Leaderboard

#PlayerTargetsTimeClicks
1Frost_Lion2/25:1413
2VichePlayer2/25:5621
3Plato88882/27:4924
4Mega_Falcon2/210:1322
5Ultra_Weasel2/214:0824