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Awesome, it works! I picked a random town and got to Philosophy in fifteen steps. I got from Sushi to Philosophy in 24 steps. All concepts abstract upwards as you go on until you're at pure thought. Deprimo, ergo cogito.

For the record I ignored links in the initial brackets. Beyond Philosophy there's an infinite redirect loop between Metaphysics and Philosophy.

I played this a few times. While it does vaguely work, it seems to follow a pretty consistent route and benefits from the fact that philosophy is preceded by "idea", which seems like the more proper root of the epistemological tree.

>It's not a law, however. "Township High School District 211" sent me into an infinite loop

Incidentally, both "Lemont Township 210" and "Leyden High School District 212" end up at Philosophy.

When I play this game, I click the N+1th link if I have already visited the Nth link.