Kevin Bacon’s Game or Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game based on the “six degrees of separation” concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart. The game is played by challenging someone to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and Kevin Bacon.
The game was popularized by a 1994 article in Premiere magazine and has since been referenced in popular culture, including in the film “The Big Bang Theory.” The game has also been used as a teaching tool in social network analysis and has been shown to have applications in other fields, such as epidemiology and computer science.
