Most of you have heard of “six degrees of Kevin Bacon,”
The game, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, requires players to link celebrities to Bacon, in as few steps as possible, via the movies they have in common. The more odd or random the celebrity, the better. For example, O.J. Simpson was in “The Naked Gun 33⅓” with Olympia Dukakis, who was in “Picture Perfect” with Kevin Bacon.
Kevin Bacon on ‘Six Degrees’ game: ‘I was horrified’ by Brandon Griggs. March 12, 2014.
The more general case, “six degrees of separation” between any two people in the world is usually shown as:
Kevin Bacon is interesting for trivia purposes but he returns only 49K mentions on Twitter today. Compare President Trump grosses ~3.2 million and Joe Biden at ~2.6 million (both exact phrases so didn’t capture nicknames or obcenities).
To make an OSINT game, who are the people you can identify with either Donald Trump or Joe Biden? Those go between #5 and #6, then proceeding from them, who should go between #4 and #5? As you proceed right to left, it requires more digging to fish up people who can provide the bridge.
You will need all your OSINT skills as you compete against others to find the best path to people more popular, or should I say more notorious than Kevin Bacon?
Here are two templates, depending upon your political persuasion to get you started with the Six Degrees of Corona:
Six Degrees of Corona – Biden version
Some wag is going to gift us with their deep legal knowledge to proclaim that intentional transmission of a disease is illegal. It’s also a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. It’s also likely a battery (civil and criminal) in most jurisdictions. None of which is relevant to an OSINT game to sharpen your skills. The choices of images (you can supply your own) is only a matter of motivation.
Feel free to circulate these images or to create your own Six Degrees of Corona OSINT game, substituting other images as you deem appropriate.
PS: My money is on Jared being #5 for Trump. No data science for that opinion but he reeks of the closeness that would transmit most diseases.