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Check out the Six Degrees app for iOS. Click for more details. Six Degrees for iOS features 3 modes of play: Use the scoreboard to keep track of your lifetime stats for each mode. Kevin Bacon numbers, link any actor to any other, the Center of the Hollywood Universe, and more.
The Oracle uses the data from and can give you the shortest path from every actor and actress that can be connected to Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon numbers, link any actor to any other, the Center of the Hollywood Universe, and more.
The database service uses a breadth-first search (BFS) to find the shortest path between pairs of actors. If you want to dig further into how shortest-path algorithms work, I recommend the textbook by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein as an excellent place to start.
Kevin Miller found a 7 after two hours of searching, and has asked if there's a Bacon Anonymous he can join. Update: Kevin found three more 7s, for a total of four. Jon Reinsch found a 7.
By processing all of the 2,429,275 actors and actresses in TMDB, I discovered that there are currently 506 people who are better centers than Kevin Bacon! What does it mean for one person to be a "better" center than another? Consider the following breakdown of people by Bacon Number (as of August 13th, 2024):
Kevin Bacon numbers, link any actor to any other, the Center of the Hollywood Universe, and more.
To send a comment to the maintainers of the Oracle of Bacon (but not actually to Kevin Bacon!), please write your message in the box below. If you have a complaint about inaccurate or missing entries in the database, please consider submitting the change on the appropriate movie page at TMDB.
Paul Erdos, on whose Erdos numbers our idea for Bacon numbers was based. Kevin Bacon numbers, link any actor to any other, the Center of the Hollywood Universe, and more.
Kevin Bacon numbers, link any actor to any other, the Center of the Hollywood Universe, and more.