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Main article: Word association

Introduction

This is a fun and simple game. It's in the Sandbox - feel free to join in! It's a good place to practice making links to articles, and to start looking for interesting articles on Wikipedia.

How to Play

By way of example, a game might start off with: cat. Then, the next person might add cat, dog. And after a few more rounds, we might get cat, dog, pet, animal, forest, tree, ...

Simply, the game involves adding a single word to the list that is related to the previous one. Avoid repeating words, and keep the links tasteful! Clearly, as the game develops, one gets a pretty long list! If you're stuck for ideas, link to the last word in the list and add the first link that appears on that page as the next link. Thus Sebastian Junger would be followed by 1962, and Latin by ancient.

Try to update the word count each time you add a word. The official limit for the main game is 400 words.

Occasionally, it's good to have some branches that diverge the main game into several sections. The official limit for said branches is 80 words. Try not to make a branch when the main game is about to close down; that will only store your branch away in the archives. Please only branch when the word exists in the word list.

In spirit of the game, please only type one word consecutively. Then, another person can respond to your word, and the game continues!

The game

We are now on Game #9!

Main word: 'NIMBY' (Game Complete)

NIMBY, Backyard breeder, The Brickyard, Indianapolis 500, 500 (number), 100 (number), Metric system, Correct, Wrong, Bad, Goodness and value theory, Granny Goodness, Goodness Gracious Me, Grace Bros., Are You Being Served?, Gay icon, Hard Gay, Enola Gay, OMD, Oriental Medicine, ginseng, Gin, Uno, Uzo, Us, We, Oui, O, Yoko Ono, Oh No! More Lemmings, No symbol, No Smoking, Airplanes, Wing, Flight, Flight of the Navigator, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Red Panda, China, Plate, Saucer, flying, Bird, big, Little Crow, Carrion Crow, Carrion, The Music Man, One-Man Band, musical instruments, Lyre, Bliar, Liar (song), Queen, King, King Harold, Harold in Italy, Harold Bishop, Harold Pinter, Panto, Pants, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Flaming Lips, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Labyrinth, Jim Henson, The Muppets, Fozzie Bear, Bear, Bare, Naked, Ladies, Man, Adam, Adam & the Ants, Spiders from Mars, Pigs in Space, Space Pirates, 2001, Wikipedia Day, Jimmy Wales, Baleen whales, Prince of Wales, Prince, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, Artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, August, Caesar, Kaiser, Kaiser Chiefs, Tribal chief, Witch doctor, Physician, Herbalist, Herb, Mary Jane, Cannibal, Papua New Guinea, Kiwi, Ostrich, Speed, Sandra Bullock, Bollocks, Profanity, Censorship, Censor (ancient Rome), Censer, Glade (brand), Plug in, Plugin, Plug and play, Sexual intercourse, Communication, Spam email, Viagra, Mark Martin, Michael Martin, Martin (bird), Birdwatching, The Watcher (film), The Matrix, Mat, Gloss, Glass, Philip Glass, David Glass, Glass blowing, Blowing up, Blown Away, Blow job, Job, AAA, Battery, Assault and battery, Battery hen, Pecking order, The buck stops here, Responsibility, Maturity, Savings bond, Bond Cars Ltd, Aston Martin, Aslan, Beslan, Russia, From Russia With Love, Back in the USSR, Born in the U.S.A., Made in China, People's Republic of China, Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, South Korea, South Carolina, Carolina, South Africa, Apartheid, Racism, Sexism, Sexy, Provocative, Agent Provocateur, Secret agent, Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Cloning, Dolly the sheep, Domestic sheep, Sheep (song), Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Ali Baba, Arabian Nights, London Knights, Memorial Cup, Holy Grail, The Da Vinci Code, Hype, Skype, Speaking, Speaking clock, Time, Clock, Face, Nose, Red Nose Day, Lenny Henry, Dudley, Dude, The Big Lebowski, The Big Easy, The Big Apple, Apple Records, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple sauce, Hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, Worcester, Manchester, Manchester United, Manchester City, Manchester Ship Canal, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Managing Risks and Planning Deliveries (ISPL), Strategic Rail Authority, Chicago Transit Authority, Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, Airplane, Police Squad!, Police brutality, Rodney King, 1992 Los Angeles riots, Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Bryant Gumbel, Brian Epstein, George Martin, Lionel Martin, Lionel Blair, Acting, Theatre, West End, London, Wembley Stadium, Live Aid, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Pluto, Charon, Greek mythology, Olympics, Athens, Parthenon, temple, Mosque, Islam, Monotheism, Monorail, Springfield, Nuclear power plant, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion, Jazz fusion, Folk music, accordion, bellows, wind, rain, winter, summer, sun, Heliopolis, hieroglyphs, cuneiform, alphabet, Alpha-Bits, check bit, Checkpoint, Checkmate, Chess, I Know Him So Well, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Last Christmas, Wham!, George Michael, Cottaging, Public toilets, Odor, Sodor, Fodors, Fedora Core, Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Oakland Raiders, Oak Ridge Boys, Site X, Area 51, Grey area, Green Zone, Purple Line, Red Sea, Black Hills, South Dakota, Iowa, Mumps, Measles, Spots, Fun with Dick and Jane, Famous Five, The Jackson 5, LMS Black 5, London Midland and Scottish Railway, Trainspotting, Ewan McGregor, You and Whose Army?, Oliver's Army, Oliver Twist, Twist and Shout, Laundry, Detergent, Deterrent, Détente, Yoga, Stretch, Slim, Slimfast, Diet, Diet of Augsburg, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, Prussia, Pressure, Under Pressure, The bends, Radiohead, Bridge, Confederation Bridge, Tyne Bridge, A Bridge Too Far, Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, Covent Garden, London's Transport Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Merseybeat, The Zutons, The Autons, Automatons, Finite state automaton, Perpetual motion machine, Ghost in the Machine, Rage Against the Machine, NIN, Not in Our Name, John Cusack, Cossack, Kazakhs, Culottes, Cthulhu, Monster, Monsterpiece Theater, Cookie Monster, Toll house, Toll bridge, Dental bridge, Troll bridge, Monty Python, The Lumberjack Song, Cross-dressing, RuPaul, Elton John, Cher, Share, File sharing, File cabinet, Cabinet file, Nail file, Vanity, Hannity, ego, Id, ID, Card, Ace of Spades, Motörhead, Lemmy, Lemmiwinks, Lemming, Copycat, Curiosity killed the cat, Cool for Cats, Squeeze, Lemon, Lime, Lyme Disease, The Tick, Blue Man Group, Tubes, Vasectomy, Hysterectomy, Mastectomy, ectomy, Suffix, Hotfix, Software, Silk, Silkworm, Glowworm, Waitomo Caves, Crystal Cave

Word count: 400/400 as of word Crystal Cave Game Complete

Branch: 'King' (closed)

King, Ethelred the Unready, Edward the Confessor, Ted Heath, Heath, Texas, Heath Ledger, Book-keeping, Librarianship, Libraries, Dewey decimal system, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, John, Paul, George and Ringo, Ring (finger), Ring finger, Finger, Thumb, Rule of thumb, Approximation, Proxy, Representative, House of Representatives, Misrepresentation, Misogamy, Bigamy, Misogyny, Monogamy, Mono, Stereo, Stereo MCs, Creation, Oasis, Blur, Gorillaz, King Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Phooey, Mr Benn, Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Hostage, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, East Midlands, East, East is East, Movie, Talkie, Walkie-talkie, Johnnie Walker, AT-AT, AT Command Set, Ten Commandments, Moses, Bible, Torah, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Paganism, Dragnet, Trawler, Shrimp fishery, Forrest Gump, Forest, Tree, Oak, Oak Ridge Boys, Boy, U2, Bono, Sonny Bono, Cher, Cheers, Salutations, Live long and prosper, Life, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Paranoia Agent, Agent Orange, Dow Chemical, Chemical substance, Acid, LSD, LCD, Display device, Visual Display Unit, Monitor, Monitor Magazine (Ottawa), BBC Monitoring, BBC One, Sky One, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, Staring At The Sun, Staring at the Sea, Sea-sickness, Chicken of the Sea, Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, Lip synching, Top of the Pops, TRL, Turkish lira, Turkish Delight, chocolate, Vanilla, Ice cream, Scream, Shout!, Johnny O'Keefe, Johnny Rotten, Malcolm McLaren, Malcolm in the Middle, Devon Malcolm, Devon, Polony, Baloney, Ham, Food, Hunger, Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand, Mercury Music Prize, Mercury, Element, Uranium, Pu94, ID10T, George_W._Bush, George H. W. Bush, Dynasty, Dallas, Salad, Caesar, Rome, Empire, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars, Princess Bunhead, Miss Piggy, Pigs in Space, Lost in Space.

word count: 150/150 as of word Lost in Space (branch closed)

Branch: 'AAA' (closed)

AAA, AA, A, article, Book, Worm, Soil, Loam, Humus, Dave, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, Hugo Award, Award, Ward Cunningham, Cancún, Spring Break, Holiday, Madonna, Virgin, Richard Branson, Hot air balloon, Blimp, Goodyear, Radial tire, NASCAR, Automobile, Ford, Ford Prefect, Prefecture, Perfection, Perfect, Perfect Strangers, The Stranger (newspaper), Stranger in a Strange Land, U2, You too, YouTube, Google Video, Home video, The Home Depot, B&Q, Be Cool, Cool for Cats, Cool Spot, Spot (Star Trek), Spot the Dog, Dog, Cat, CAT, DOG, FOX, Fox news, News At Ten, Ten Downing Street, Chequers, Chess, Deep Blue, Sea, Fish, Finding Nemo, Clown fish, Clown, Phobia, Fear, Cape Fear, Cape_Feare, Cape Cornwall, Cornwall, Cornish language, Celtic languages, Celt, Celtic knot, Gordian knot, Chapman Stick, ChapStick, lip gloss, Pulp, Common People, Working class, Citizen Smith, Citizen Watch, Citizen Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy, Big, Stuart Little, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Philip J. Fry, Bender, Robert Downey Jr, Ally McBeal, This Life, Egg, Credit card, Golden ratio, Parthenon, Acropolis, Greece, Grease, Dirty, Nasty, Nasty Nick, Sick Nick Mondo, Wrestling, WWE, Gay, Happy, Mr. Happy, Roger Hargreaves, James Hargreaves, Owen Hargreaves, Bayern Munich, Munich, Munich air disaster, Matt Busby, Busby, Trilby, Philby, Spy, Alias, Smith and Jones, Smith & Wesson, Weston-super-Mare, John Cleese, Clockwise, Counterclockwise, Spinning Around, Kylie Minogue, Kermit the Frog, Phenomenon, Charles Fort, Fort George, Fort William, Charles Kennedy, Menzies Campbell, Neve Campbell, Alastair Campbell, Go Ask Alice, White Rabbit, Albinism, Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Church of England, Battle of Britain, Spitfire, Dragon, Dragoon, Wolf's Dragoon's, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

word count: 150/150 as of Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (branch closed)

Branch: 'Dudley' (closed)

Dudley, Do-right, Altruism, All is True, All You Need Is Love, All I Need is the Air That I Breathe, The Prodigy, Firestarter, Ignition, On, Upon, Once upon a time, Into the Woods, Little Red Riding Hood, Bruce Hood, The Hood, Red Hood, Red Hat, The Mad Hatter, Mercury poisoning, Lead poisoning, Lead singer, Bass guitarist, BASE jumping, GOTO, Spaghetti code, Spaghetti Junction, Conjunction Junction, ABC, Jackson 5, Tito Jackson, Andrew Jackson, President, censorship, PMRC, PMT, TLA, T & A, TNA, DNA, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Franklin Mint, Three Coins in the Fountain, Wishing well, When You Wish Upon A Star, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Teddy, Roosevelt, Arsenic and Old Lace, Fishnet, Stockings, Stocks, stock market, FTSE 100, Footsies, Football, Liverpool FC, Liverpool, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Thomas the Tank Engine, James the Red Engine, James the Just, Alfred the Great, Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, Catherine Wheel, Spinning Jenny, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Hair extensions, Stanley Zbornak, Stanley Works, Microsoft Works, Oxymoron, Oxytocin, Botox, Injection, Needle-exchange programme, Stock exchange, Stock.xchng, website, Porn, Popcorn, Colonel Sanders, Kentucky colonel, Kentucky Derby, Roller derby, Whirling dervish, Vortex, Tornado, The Wizard of Oz, Kansas, Ecclesiastes, Genesis, Exodus, Bob Marley, The Barley Mow, Drinking game, Quarters, Dimes, Dime Bar, Mars Bar, Marianne Faithfull, Absolutely Fabulous, Lacroix, sweetie, Lacroix, Louis Vuitton, Louis Pasteur, Milk, Milk bar, Korova, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Burgess Shale, shale

word count: 120/120 as of shale (branch closed)

Branch: 'Iowa' (closed)

Iowa, Mumps, Bumps, My Humps, Fergie, Budgie the Little Helicopter, Jimbo and the Jet Set, Astro, Vance Astro, Superhero, Everyman, Morality play, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart, Extras, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Pink, P!nk, I'm Not Dead, Alive, Cannibalism, Papua New Guinea, Future Sound of London, Britpop, Shed 7, Pier 39, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, House of Stuart, House of Windsor, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder, Visually impaired, guide dogs, German shepherd, Rin Tin Tin, Tin Tin, tintinnabulation, Tinnitus, Ear, Hear, Hearsay, Heresy, Schism, Avignon, Sauvignon blanc, Chardonnay, wine, Bacchus, god, Pharaoh, Egypt, Sand, Sand dance, Sandworm, Wyrm, Y Ddraig Goch, Whales, Japan, Hokkaido, Snow, Snowcone, Slushie, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Octuplets, Tuplet, Tulip, Bilabial, Phonology, Paleontology, Palaeolithic, Paleogeology, Palaeobotany, Pelé, Keepie uppie, Keeping Up Appearances, Bucket, Brigade, Bridge, Contract, Assassins, Mark David Chapman, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Whistling, Whistling duck, Duck Dodgers, 24½th Century, In the Year 2525, Zager and Evans, Dale Evans, Roy Rogers

word count 100/100 as of Roy Rogers, (branch closed)

Ultra Word Association

This is a fun derivative of word association that involves a bit more creativity. It is also a good way to start seeing how you make Tables on Wikipedia. And speaking of creativity, there are five variations to the game!

How to Play

Simply add your word to the grid, either going sideways or downwards. One word at a time please!

  • If you go sideways, your new word needs to associate with the word to the LEFT of it.
  • If you go downwards, your word need to associate with the word ABOVE it.
  • If there is a word ABOVE and to the LEFT of your word, it needs to be associated with BOTH of them.
  • You can't add a word so that there's an empty gap either above it or to the left of it.
  • You are not allowed red links.

By the time we can reach the final gridsquare, (bottom right), we will have a word associated with every single other word in the grid, that began as the top-left square.

Obviously, it is harder to fill in the in-between squares as you have to be creative to find the word that associates twice. Thus more satisfaction and praise goes to the guys who can get us closer to that elusive bottom-right square. If absolutely necessary, a previous word can be overwritten.

Give it a go!

Example

Here's what the beginning of a game might look like:

Angels Demons Fire Hose
Halo Kill Gun Water cannon
Ring TV Dirty Harry

Here's how those words are working. The highlighted squares show how the bottom-rightmost word is related to the one ABOVE and to the LEFT of it.

Angels
First word. 		Demons
Related to Angels.		 Fire
Related to Demons.		 Hose
Related to Fire.
Halo
Related to Angels. 		Kill
Related to Halo (via the X-Box game) AND related to Demons as Demons kill		 Gun
Related to Kill AND related to Fire via Gunfire.		 Water cannon
Related to Gun and related to Hose as the hose feeds water to the cannon.
Ring
Related to Halo as it's a Ring		 TV
Related to Ring and Kill as in "The Ring", the TV Kills		 Dirty Harry
Related to Gun and TV as Dirty Harry uses guns on TV

This is achieved with the code: 

| [[Angels]] || [[Demons]] || [[Fire]] || [[Hose]]
|-
| [[Halo]] || [[Kill]] || [[Gun]] || [[Water Cannon]]
|-
| [[Ring]] || [[TV]] || [[Dirty Harry]] ||

How to start a new series

The Ultra Word Association has spawned a number of deviants. If you have an idea and are so bold you'd like to try to make it a series, use the following steps:

1. Use [1] to make your table, making or deleting new rows and columns, and changing the background color to suit your series.

2. Come up with a name for it. Four of the deviants have an adjective followed by "word association" or "ultra word association": Fixed, Radial, Psychedelic, and Enigmatic; so following this trend might be a good idea.

3. Provide a good description of how to play in the space above your table, emphasizing those aspects that might get confused easily.

4. Leave any notes about organizing your series; ie, others can archive and start new games, or you'd like to do all of them personally, etc.

5. Post it. You're done for now!

6. When the game is done by your criteria, archive it in the Misc section, providing a summary of the game style and next to the link include in bold end words if any.

7. If your series runs four or more times, you get your own section in the archives! And if you get six or more, you get the Six Award.

Remember, creating new things is just as fun as playing it! So go for it!

The ultra game: 'Nils Johan Semb'

In this game, the initial word was chosen by clicking the "Random article" link.

Nils Johan Semb Norway Norwegian Wood Murakami Haruki Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis Morph
Coach NOR-WAY Bussekspress Magical Mystery Tour The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Jackdaw The Crow Brandon Lee
Couch First class travel Flying carpet Magical realism The Raven Blackbird
The Simpsons Monorail Maglev train Shanghai Maglev Train Vincent Raven Paul McCartney
Matt Groening Marge vs. the Monorail Thomas the Tank Engine Steam locomotive North Eastern Railway
Futurama Pneumatic tube Atmospheric railway Funicular Pennines
Package delivery Rocket mail The Jetsons Space elevator Space Mountain
FedEx Tomorrow Futurology Sundiver Outer space
UPS The world The Late Great Planet Earth Red giant Betelgeuse
Uninterruptible power supply Geothermal power Fossil fuel Fuel cell Chemical reaction
Generator Magma Crust Uranium Chemical element
Electricity Lava lamp Crustie Depleted uranium 92 (number)
Wind turbine New Age Hippie Poverty 1992
Turban Share International Socialism Communism
Harbhajan Singh Test cricket Left-arm orthodox spin Propaganda

Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)

Ultra Fixed Word Association: 'Jan Śniadecki'

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This is a spinoff of the Ultra association. In this one, you don't have any control over what the initial words are.

Jan Śniadecki Poland Lithuania Baltic Sea Denmark Greenland Ice
Mathematics Copernicus Peace of Toruń (1411) Prussia Europe European Union Iceland
Tom Lehrer Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Partitions of Poland History of Europe Early Middle Ages Holy Roman Empire Vikings
Music T.A.T.u Michał Wiśniewski History of pop music Lute Violin The Ring Cycle
Orchestra Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Eurovision Song Contest Abba Guitar Bolombatto Hurdy gurdy
Conductor Dana International Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Rednex Folk music Musical box
Train Orient Express Israel Railways Statens Järnvägar Red River Valley and Western Railroad Square Dance Ballet dancer
Boat QE2 Disraeli Gears La Cream Canadian French Line dance Chorus line
River Cruise ship Sea Cruise La Mer Gulf of Saint Lawrence Dance of Quebec Can-can
Canal Panama Canal Houseboat Noah's Ark Black Sea Hudson Bay Canada
Lock Loch Scotland Sheep Black sheep Bay of Pigs Canada Bay
Key Quay Rosyth Aran sweater Wool Lulworth Cove Anchorage
Keystone Rock (geology) Geology of Scotland Isle of Arran Preppie Geography Alaska
Keystone Kops Sgt. Rock Dundee Mugdrum Island Anglo-Saxon Angeln Peninsula
Pennsylvania George C. Marshall Winston Churchill Scottish National Party Scots language

Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)

Radial ultra game: 'Beit Al Qur'an'

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The rules are identical to the ultra game, except that the starting point begins in the centre of the box, and words expand out from the centre, associating to all the adjacent cells. Unless your word is in a straight line to the start word (i.e. it is in column D or row H) then it must be adjacent to two existing words.

A B C D E F G
A Political party
B Party
C Celebration
D Elephant
E Ganesha
F Hinduism
G Saudi Arabia Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain Islam Islamic view of the Bible Injeel Gospel of Mark
H Cod liver oil Oil Bahrain Beit Al Qur'an Qur'an Scripture Bible
I Bad taste Iraq War Middle East Qumran Q&A Q document
J cultural imperialism Foreign relations of the United States Israel Dead Sea Scrolls
K Scroll (parchment)
L Shodo
M Frodo
N Golem
O The Ring

Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)

Radial ultra cross game: 'North Sea'

The rules are identical to the radial game, except that some of the initial letters are fixed (inspired by the 3rd psychedelic ultra game).

Jesus
Isra and Miraj
Muhammad
Muharram
Gulf of Aden Yemen Arabian Peninsula
Persian Gulf Dubai Jebel Ali
Storm surge Gulf of Mexico Oil Oil tanker
Lump Swell Atlantic Ocean North Sea German Navy Eckernförde Rockford
Cancer Deep-fried Mars bar Scotland Aberdeen Royal Navy Submarine
Shetland Islands Lerwick Port HMNB Devonport
Caithness Wick Wick Harbour
Scottish Gaelic Alba Flipper
Thai language Laab
Thai cuisine Egg salad
Salad

Reverse Radial Ultra game 'Öland'

As the name sugguests this is the Radial Ultra game in reverse - you start from the four corners and work towards the centre. New words must associate with all existing adjacent ones, and be next to either two existing words or one existing word and the edge of the table. The gold square in the centre of the table must be left to last and assocciate with all four surrounding words.

Öland Island Tide Attraction Gravity Sir Isaac Newton Water Newton
Baltic Sea Åland Archipelago Sea Lincolnshire Cambridgeshire
Sea Gulf of Bothnia Soke of Peterborough Huntingdonshire
Serpent Huntingdon Life Sciences
The Serpentine
Hyde Park
Control
Great North Run Pest
Great North Road Insect
A1 Centipede
A Heavy equipment Dig Dug
Anarchism Centers Big men Big Dig
Varlam Cherkezishvili Better dead than red Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid White Men Can't Jump Basketball Harlem Globetrotters The Boston Globe

Psychadelic Word Association: 10 more islands

In this remake of Psychadelic game 1, words are in fixed places throughout the table. Like the radical word association, you can only add on next to a word that's been placed, but unlike it, there are several "islands". This time the islands literally are islands, so the word "island" is prohibited.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
A Flying Spaghetti Monster Canvey Island Monster Canvey Island Essex Three
B Vindaloo Chav Essex girl Trinidad Callaloo Curry
C Mediterranean Ibiza Pizza Hut Tobago Tabasco Sauce
D Palermo Sicily Sicilian pizza Food Mexican cuisine Irish cuisine
E Capital Italian Ice Junk food McFlurry Northern Ireland
F Reykjavik Ice Age Ice cream Mint sorbet Lamb New Zealand North Island
G Iceland glaciers Mints York Peppermint Patty South Island
H Hans Nansen Baffin Island Baffle Confusion Canterbury (disambiguation)
I Revolution Timor Polar vortex Metaphysics Confucius Immanuel Kant
J Cuba US Navy Bogart Philosophy Eastern Kanto Region
K Qantas Royal Australian Navy Hobart Japanese-Australian relations Aichi Expo 2005 Honshū Tokyo
L Kangaroo Australia Tasmania Tasmanian Devil Habitat destruction Environmental protection in Japan Japan
M Neighbours Gayle & Gillian Blakeney The Sisters Child Man Environmentalism Kyoto Protocol
N Days of Our Lives Siblings Kid programming language Calf Calf of Man Humanism Global warming
O BASIC Plus fours Human leg Physiology Flatulence

Grid-Size: 7x15 (do not expand)

Enigmatic Word Association

In this one, based off of PWA2, you don't have an active part in word associating; rather, it is your job to guess which words could fill in the blanks. There are four words put down in a flower-shape, and five mystery words around them that are related to the words that they touch horizontally or vertically. It is your job to guess which words could fit in the five blanks.

#1 Tuxedo Jackie Chan #2 Channel
Monte Carlo #3 Amplifier
#4 Dominoes Pizza #5 Microwave

Grid Size: 3x3

Guesses

So that this game can become self-sufficient, beneath each guess vote whether you think it works or not. If a guess gets five votes or more for it, it works. If a vote gets three or more no's, cross it off! When all five spaces are working, you can archive this and start a new one. Cheers!

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Word Disassociation

Introduction

This is a take-off of the original word association, and hasn't been seen since Game #3.

As with the ultra word association and the ultra branch, leave this here to archive itself separate from the main game. Also, feel free to make a branch occasionally.

How to play

This is much like the regular word association,except instead of trying to put a word that is related to the previous one, you put one that has no relation whatsoever!

Sometimes, the game degenerates back into the normal version of word association, but it really doesn't matter because it's fun either way! (See if you can pick out when these switchovers occur)

Main Word: Chaos

chaos, yams, Final Fantasy VII, Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun, Angels, Moon, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch, Adidas, Plantains, Blu-tack, Floccinaucinihilipilification, Emperor Norton, Bingo, Michel Foucault, Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso...serine, Wibble, Red Screes, Monism, Exploding sheep (Continued below)
Titin (Oh just click the link (something like 184k words long)), Cow, Salad fingers, Butterfinger, Badfinger, Glockenspiel, Boredom, Bob McGrath, Menendez Brothers, Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, Sausage, Fnord, River Thames, Bloop, Marilyn (hill), Autofellatio, Herbert, Seaborgium, Shibboleth, Iraq Survey Group, Caitlin Stasey, Henry Winter, Booger, Aylesbury, nondimensionalization, gibberish, fa la la la la la la la la, Mosque, Heliopolis, Ruth Rendell, Signcryption, Smoot, Moncton, Dord, violin, Karl Menninger, Escherichia coli, Unibrow, Inaya Day, Tomacco, Liger, Mike the Headless Chicken, Stuckeyville, Mayra Veronica, Fibonacci, Autocunnilingus, School, celesta, Gerbilling, James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baron Magheramorne, Jackalope, Romanian National R&D Computer Network, Trailer Park Boys, Joan Collins, Death Row, peridot, Tagetes tenuifolia, Emancipation, The, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, Jheri curl, EU-Moldova Action Plan, Egg, University of St Andrews Union Debating Society, University of Manchester, Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Bananaquit, Quilt, Circle, Kumquat, List box, ABC-DEF-GHI, Airplane, Merrion Street, Tom Hanks, São Roque do Canaã, Espírito Santo, antidisestablishmentarianism, Epson, Vampire watermelon, Mel Karmazin, Fungus, Representation of the People Act 1918, How Much for Happy Purple, Grim Fandango, Johnny Depp, Murad Bey, Nǃxau, Project-Open, Grimm's law, Robin Williams, Aligator, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Charge of the Light Brigade, Lorem ipsum, 76 BC, Sheffer stroke, Publishing, Osteoporosis, reef knot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, Dickensian, Greek language, Censorship, Apple, Martinique, Windows Vista, Marmalade, Jam, ALF (TV series), Gmail, Metasyntactic variable, Martian, Spork, Delta Goodrem, blarg, Coca-Cola, Linkin Park, Ghana, defibrillator, Electoral Reform Society, Luge, molybdenite, Disambiguation, Albert Einstein, Iowa State University, intelligence, Gondwanaland, You, Atlantis, Gonorrhoea, Oolitic limestone, Allah, Coldstream Guards, Myspace, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, War, Tenon saw, Deoxys, John Doe, Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, Pontefract Monkhill railway station, Bromeliad, Acropolis, Yersinia pestis, Pterodactyl, The Beatles, Pompeii, Telepresence, Walmart, Giant Haystacks, Another Brick in the Wall, Basingstoke, Trench, Two Ronnies, World domination, Kangaroo, Pornography, Bongo drums, Autofellatio, Highway to Hell, Monty Panesar, Carlos Santana, Newark, New Jersey, vitamin C, Baleen whale, Cheese, Channel Tunnel, Douglas adams, America's Cup, Beagle, Braciasaurus, Mao Zedong, Campari, Anne of Denmark, Aphrodite, John Basedow, Mars, Foghorn Leghorn, Gifu, Gouranga, Long S, The French Revolution, Digraph, Asymptote, Gilmore Girls, Giraffe, Connie Francis, Semolina, European Handball Federation, Rape of Pevensey, U.S. Route 66, Igloo, Matt Busby, Hay fever, Esperanto, Irian Jaya, Atlantic Ocean, Turkmenistan, In Living Color, Antidisestablishmentarianism, The Wrong Trousers, SAT Subject Tests, Treacle, Fhqwhgads, Egon Ronay, John Lewis Gaddis, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Childcare Action Project, It's That Man Again, Five, Kitten, Ben Folds, Vangelis, 2000 AD, Concupiscence, Sine wave, Spasm, Captain Sensible, The Weather Channel, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, Bodger and Badger, Communist Party, Philharmonic orchestra, Procol Harum, Carl Gustav Jung, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Smurf, Tomás de Torquemada, Floella Benjamin, Timetable, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Doraemon, The Avalanches, Johnny Hates Jazz, Ordovices, Moomintroll, Button Moon, Death Cab for Cutie, Himalayas, Futurama, Dreadnought, taro, Six Flags, flu, Liebfraumilch, The Beach Boys, Dame Judi Dench, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Vietnam War, Pedro Solbes, Thwomp, Rhinestone Cowboy, Skunk, Wightlink, Blonde, Machu Picchu, Colors of noise, Kokomo Island, Home Alone 2, Sepang, M&M, Juventus F.C., Teela, Urquhart Castle, Spendthrift, Kanye West, The Real Ghostbusters, Bournemouth, Burj Dubai, Herding cats, On the Buses, 295, Planet Of The Apes, Vin Diesel, Neverwhere, Clique, NAMBLA, Antelope, Goners, Swashbuckler, Plasticine, Kingdom of Loathing, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Ragnaros, Onegai! Samia Don, Bowls, Marriott Edgar, Holy Week, Road Fighter, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, Reductionism, Halitosis, Connie Willis, Krispy Kremes, Boomtown, Shoes, Cameltoe, Indecent Proposal, Legio II Augustus, Let's Pretend, Limpet, CPU, Eskdale, Antares, Dante And Randal And Jay And Silent Bob And A Bunch Of New Characters And Lando, Take Part In A Whole Bunch Of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, The Bad News Bears, The Last Starfighter, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Plus A High School Reunion, Cat, Emulsion, Spasm, Tulip, Spam, Coco Crisp, FC Basel, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Pansy Potter, Luminosity, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Vimto, Leon Russell, GWR Manor Class, Ronnie Biggs, Port of Spain, Gottfried Finger, Hufflepuff, Culture Club, The Wheel of Time, DJ Boy, Eggnog, Joseph of Arimathea, Trumpton, Snake River Conspiracy, "Back in the U.S.S.R.", The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Pô, Windex, Colossus computer, Aichi, Gazump, Canoe, Butane, Ulysses 31, Oriya, Lark Voorhies, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, 9 to 5, Charcoal, Bashibozouk, MOT, Roland Deschain, Piebald, Zero, Feline, Alveolar lateral flap, grapheme, David Bowie, Doomsday Book, Transformational grammar, Norwegian Forest Cat, Baha Men, Icicle, Fezzan, Idioglossia, Michael Palin, Plumber, shiatsu massage,

Branch: 'Moon' (closed)

Moon, Alexander II of Russia, Toothbrush, Jeans, piñon, Wikipedia, Pikachu, The Wheat Committee, Plankton, Olethros, Shiraz, Fight Club, ferry, Amercement, Time Cube, Jefferson, Alberta, Oprah Winfrey, Interstate 520, Ass, HPH CC, Felicity Huffman, Harburg, Golden Globes, your mom, Bob Barker, Island Records, Pestilence, New totalitarianism, chickpeas, Formaldehyde, Harper's Bazaar, Wheel of Fortune, Herron Mills, Ontario, Badger, Philadelphia Orchestra, United States federal courts, British Rail Class 153, Dutch Reformed Church, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk, þ, Alien abduction, Balderdash, Topology, Igloo, Particle accelerator, Optometry, materialism, Bosporus, Salween, Cemetary, Queentastic, Ox, Earth, particulate, cannibalism, Ipso facto, Latin, George Clooney, Yttrium, Disciple, UFO, Sandstone, Yazoo Land Fraud, Yosemite Sam, Curling, Wikipedia Sandbox, Ystradgynlais, Special:Random, Linnaean taxonomy, eyebrows, Baja California, Me, The Greatest Canadian, Kingston-upon-Thames, Hallelujah, Diving bell, Dumbledore, Aldus Huxley, Me, Judas Iscariot,

Branch: 'Unibrow' (closed)

Unibrow, Sexy, Margaret Thatcher, Lord of the Dance, Abraham Lincoln, Renal artery, Peanut butter, MG Rover, Swaziland, nail clipper, Wizbit, Yangzi, Mongoose, Saturn 5, Gnu, Hair, Barking, filibuster, Roman Britain, Celt, Pliny the Younger, Pantry, Osmosis, Death, Set theory, frog, The Bishop of Barf, Cougar, Bobsleigh, hockey, Hyundai, iPod, Shelley Rudman, Good bye, Lenin!, North British Railway, efficient, Civil service, Ve, Brigadoon, cookie, compound interest, aardvark, Xenophobia, Galaxy Quest, Aberystwyth, Rolex, Ovary, Hell's Kitchen, Tomfoolery, The Killers, French, A. E. J. Collins, Surfing, Little Owl, Omicron Theta, Snowman, email, Coldplay, Salamander, Dendrite, Lavender, rhododendron, Tbilisi, Aldous Huxley, Myxomatosis, Spaceballs, Ornithophobia, Bhaji, Narbonic, Nihilism, Autofellatio, November Rain, Rhombus, Imagine, Bowman's capsule, Brownian movement, Orc, Modem.

  • Final word count: 80/80 as of Modem. Branch closed

Branch: 'Spork' (closed)

Spork, Foon, Korea, Thomas Aquinas, Snow, Hiccup, Yellow, Nothobranchius, Cheshire cheese, United States Pharmacopoeia, Weddell Sea, Antimatter, Amnesty International, In Cold Blood, Hydrofoil, Frabjous, Longshore drift, Monkey, Newton-le-Willows, Autofellatio, Guns N' Roses, Greenwich Mean Time, Crash, Jessica, Kilimanjaro, Pentax, Fingernail, Mr Potato Head, Mongoose, Machu Picchu, Chuck, Vomit, Broccoli, Tree, Wood, Table, Leg, Kick, Soccer, Run, Nose, Smell, Perfume, J.Lo, Maid, Clean, Dirty, Swear, Oath, Growth, Beanstalk, Green beans, Jabberwocky, Charles Darwin, Southern Rhodesia, Abbey Road, Venus Flytrap, Wine, Gaudete, Ireland, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Quark star, Numismatist, Freddy Krueger, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, District Line, Stephen King, Cerys Matthews, Oxymoron, Zzyzx Road

  • Total word count: 80/80 as of Zzyzx Road Branch closed.

Branch: 'Kangaroo' (closed)

Kangaroo, Fire, NATO phonetic alphabet, Sperm whale, Dmitri Shostakovich, Petunia, Tram, John Lennon, toenail, foot, VeggieTales, Bill Cosby, Schrödinger's Cat, Wisconsin, Trepanning, Tartan, Pig, Semaphore, Timpani, foxtrot, Dduallt, MapInfo, Fish and chips, chicken fritters, Harmonica, Ulan Bator, WKRP in Cincinnati, Baleen whale, Rubicon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Brasseye, Bishop of Bath and Wells, depression, Rodeo, Word association, Souvenir, Pope, Frankenstein, Hover (video game), YTMND, Western Arctic, Silver Sun, Austria-Hungary, Barbarella, Irkutsk, Daniel Dennett, Igloo, 1969, Cyprus, shangri-la, Beast of Bodmin, Lieutenent-Commander, YMMV, Carry On Constable, Divination, Daler Mehndi, Muzzy, Dexter Fletcher, Geoffrey Boycott, The Herbs, Dobunni, Weebl, Pope John XVIII, llama, Alanis Morisette, Challenge Anneka, Baden Baden, Brownsea Island, vodka, All Nippon Airways, Araucaria, HRH, Mr. Men, Chocobo, Ffestiniog Railway, Earmuffs, Tuesday, Uckfield, Deuteronomy, Raichu, Ynys Môn,

  • Final word count: 80/80 as of Ynys Môn (branch closed)

Branch: 'U.S. Route 66' (closed)

U.S. Route 66, Transvaal, The Doors, Total Perspective Vortex, Transvestite, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, Bong, Marijuana, Mercia, Easter Bunny Mat, Echobelly, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Alan Partridge, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Limassol, Pharmacology, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Fort Knox, Tripos, Ouagadougou, knickerbocker, Derbyshire, The Golden Palace, Dauphin, Emigrant Trail, Beaujolais, High camp, British Rail Class 20, James Thurber, Silures, Rabbit, Salamander, canberra, Oberammergau, Bratwurst, Refraction, Left-arm unorthodox spin, chicken, Robert Rankin, OOPS, President of the Board of Trade, What If, Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster, Iron Curtain, O RLY?, Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, Paleobotany, Brigham Young, Kuwait, Rhombus, Tim Curry, 112 Gripes about the French, Harper Valley PTA, Poundstretcher, Vimto, Methylated spirit, Argus, Species 8472, Can I Get a Witness, British and Irish Lions, Widdershins, Bohemian Rhapsody, Pen, Video killed the Radio Star, Massage, Eutrophication, Dave Barry, Fife, Beasts of Bourbon, Nights In White Satin, Pluralistic ignorance, Pope Benedict XVI, Symposium, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Heliopause, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Duane Gill, kambah, Lambretta

  • Total word count: 80/80 as of Lambretta (Branch closed)

Branch: 'Thwomp' (branch closed)

Thwomp Plastic Bertrand, penis envy, Lambchop, Flag of Iceland, Darwin Awards, Grover Cleveland, JET Programme, Ordovician, Quannum, Xenu, Mariella Frostrup, ANZAC Day, Deus ex Machina, E. E. Cummings, Problem of induction, tibia, Toblerone, Inuit, Galaxy Quest, Rump Parliament, Water, Dalek, Deutsch, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, Cramer's rule, Vorsprung durch Technik, Sakashita, Crewe, Tendon, Karol Wojtyla, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Spock, Baccara, Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, Visa, crazy frog, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Water Chestnut, Biggus Dickus, Wimbledon Common, Fred Basset, Uri Geller, Captain America, Sulphur dioxide, Backyard Babies, Salisbury Cathedral, Hitler, Self-reference, Crampons, Scum, Pulsar, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, TLC, Billy Preston, Formica, Aortic sinus, Gypsum, Sazae-san, Mount Kilimanjaro, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Ferengi, Quark, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Gnu, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Mulawin, Fanservice, Crescent, barbershop quartet, Anglerfish, No, Mahatma Gandhi, Mas Que Nada, Ō, window cleaner, elusive, grue, Ampersand,

  • Total word count: 80/80 as of Ampersand (branch closed)

Ultra Fixed Word Disassociation: 'Goulash'

This is a spinoff of the Ultra Fixed Word Association. In this one, not only do you not have control over what the initial words are, the "fixed" words are based on the Word Disassociation game, below. In the interests of keeping this game readable on one screen, please keep the words reasonably short :-)

The main word for this third game was chosen as it was not associated with the first or last words of game 1 or with the random article (Neurotic Outsiders).

Goulash Punjab Ty Coagh Carol Vorderman Dar Es Salaam Woomera
Purple Help! Hajj The Angriest Dog in the World Inchcolm Island The Doors Duff Beer
Aston Martin Cigars of the Pharaoh Pita bread Q (Star Trek) Veronika Zemanova The Catcher in the Rye W Window System
Vaughan Ulrich Tukur Pschitt Vikram Solanki Puma
Duke of Aveiro ETAOIN SHRDLU Genki Charon (moon)
LEXX Guardian (band) Girl Power
Cosmography Shlisselburg Diorama
Adis Ababa
Earwig
Pencil
Cosmopolitanism
Sedimentary rock
Anger
John Loewen
Brompton Bicycle


Grid-Size: 7x15 (do not expand)

Ultra Disassociative Vortex

This is similar to the ultra fixed word disassociation, except the difficulty is compounded by there being a spiral of disassociative words, instead of a mere two rows.

Oh, and you have to associate, not disassociate. Have fun :)

Printer Latin Fenugreek Pig Kansas Limousine Magic
Orangina Llanelli Wales South Tikka
Lock CNN Europe Pole Qatar
Ticket Indianapolis 500 Rubber World Wide Web BARF Diet Corgi
Dam India VVS Laxman Food Hamburger Hill Friary
Fred Flintstone Dinosaur Coelacanth sushi Japan War Grandparents
Ironing empress dowager Empire Slime Crude Diesel
Israel Esther Goldilocks The Little Match Girl Firestarter Smack My Bitch Up Nudity
Cadmium Milliways Tacoma Narrows Shipham
Rodentia Rolling Stones INXS Koala Springbok Owl
Ganymede Racoon AIDS South Africa Commonwealth
N!xau Money Income tax Carpet Bomb Bush
El Al Roland Rat Sausage Oort cloud Asteroid Expatriate
Toe Space exploration Diagonal
Romano-British Friedrich Nietzsche Pomegranate Qi Dollar Trench Hoax

Radial Ultra Disassociate-then Associate

Starting form the center, disassociate all the blank spaces in the grid except those marked "associate".Do not touch the marked spaces until the rest of the grid is filled in. Then associate the reserved spaces with ALL of the 4 neighboring words.For the disassociation portion, a new entry does not have to border 2 words- it can be legal bordering only one.


Fozzie Bear 9th century Codswallop Stroker and Hoop Chlamydia Dornoch Firth Swearing Kīlauea Asymptote Verifiable
Scaramouche Associate Frito Bandito Associate Cheers Rod Stewart Equatorial Guinea Associate Zebedee Michael Faraday
Commodore 64 Golden Hind Left hand path Semaphore Baritone horn Placenta National Lottery Pumice Associate Ghoti
Sylvester the Cat Associate Colloquialism Associate Sweet sorghum Karuta Nürburgring Associate Dengue fever Alan Moore
Rope Aachen The Beatles Adelante Non-banking financial company Petticoat Sora Hasegawa Hale and Pace Associate Liquified petroleum gas
Gobbledygook Associate Perrier Associate Naked Mole Rat Feldspar Tammy Wynette Associate Dawlish Warren Arsenal
Catholic Encyclopedia South Uist Pyranose Numismatist Identity fraud Lorikeet Pompeii Teletubbies Fortnum and Mason Angioplasty
South Pole Associate Andes Associate Mountain dragon Tamara Beckwith Brythonic Associate Event horizon Vicksburg
East Timor Staten Island Associate Curb cut Orinoco Belt Vermont State Highway 26 Beautifly Monkey Associate Fosse Way
Choir dress Manganese Associate The Headington Shark List of unseen characters Chameleon Associate Archaeology Cabinet
Goose bumps Associate Interstate 44 Submarine cable Lela Brooks Potter Romney Marsh Plinth Associate Baron Munchhausen
Patina A Hard Day's Night Associate Carpet sweeper Orthography Scorched earth Associate Mr. T Kyla Cole
Associate Frankincense Associate
Associate Kevin Eldon Associate
Enterprise

Dealer's Choice

For this game the location of the next move is pre-selected and marked with either an "A" or a "D". If the letter is A, the word must associate, if it is a "D" the word must disassociate. After entering a word, the player then chooses the location and type of the next move by placing either an "A" or a "D" anywhere in the grid that touches at least one word

D: Halloween D: Reference Desk A:Hill D: Pocari Sweat A: Coca Cola
A:List of cheeses D: Googol D: Strom Thurmond A: Little Mountain, South Carolina A: Joe Lieberman
A:Farmer cheese A: Milkshake A:Cool D: Mountain Dew A:Artificial flavor D: List of radio stations in Connecticut
D:Pitchfork A:Cowpox A:Hand, foot and mouth disease D:Conjunctivitis A:Artificial eye A: Spectrum A: Light
A: Criminal A:Rustle A:Dead man's hand A: Poker D:Biophotonics A:Bioluminescence A:De Phenomenis in Orbe Lunae
D:Saboteur A:Urban Dictionary D:Wiktionary Dealer's choice A:Urolagnia D: Plover
A:Deliberate misspelling A: Dictionary A:Etymology A:Start D:Urinal cake A:Public toilet A: Guano
A: NRW D: North Rhine-Westphalia A:Egg A: Cake mix A:Gooey butter cake D: Pope Sixtus III
D:Johnny Appleseed A:Apfelschorle A:Apple A:Burgertime D: Pole Position A:Formula One A:Quadratic formula
A:Swedenborgianism D:Fifth Beatle A:Obesity D: Luciano Pavarotti A:Decibel
A:Reincarnation A:Worm A:Tequila D: Sushi A:Food
A: Rice wine A: Hell's Kitchen D: Bastard
A:Ricin

Archive of old games

Normal

(normal games are played out one word after another, with occasional splitting branches.)

Lasted until we had about 400 words on the list, and a bunch of repeated ones.
Our first attempt at word disassociation. Creativity was somewhat lower.
Our third word association game. Lasted until there were around 849 words on the list, including four "branches".
Our fourth word association game. Was limited to 400 words in the main branch, but several branches arose, including two invisible branches.
the fifth word association game.
the sixth word association game, 400 words in the main branch and 5 other branches totaling another 510 words.
  • Game #7 ("Tram" → "Tom Bombadil")
the seventh word association game.

Ultra

(Ultra games are played out on a 7x15 table, associating from the upper left to the bottom right)

The first Ultra Association game on a 7x15 grid.
Second Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15. The game only got to 7x14 when it ended.
Third Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
Fourth Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
Fifth Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
Sixth Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
Lucky sevens!
No hiding behind the 8 ball during this game!

Fixed

(fixed games are played on a 7x15 grid, starting with the top and left filled and going to the bottom right.)

The branch of an older game, with slightly different rules than ultra that started it all.
The second ultra fixed game.
The third ultra fixed game.
The fourth ultra fixed game.
The fifth ultra fixed game.
Wikipedians hit this game for 6!
Lucky or the seventh deadly sin? Look at the archive and decide for yourself

Radial

(Radial games begin in the center of a 7x15 table and expand outwards.)

  • Radial Ultra #1 ("Albert Einstein" → "Child", "Malnourishment", "L'Inferno (1911)" and "Sexual slavery")
The first game of Radial Ultra Association
  • Radial Ultra #2 ("Crackpot" → "Piracy", "Stephen King", "Bikini" and "Madame de Staël")
The second game of Radial Ultra Association
  • Radial Ultra #3 ("Language" → "BBC Two", "Christmas special", "Fish" and "La Francophonie")
The third game of Radial Ultra Association
  • Radial Ultra #4 ("Curling" → "Trail of Tears", "Tony Blair", "Electra" and "Red")
The fourth game of Radial Ultra Association
  • Radial Ultra #5 ("Rutland" → "Witchfinder General", "Second Avenue Line", "Computer Virus" and "Coolness")
The fifth game in the increasingly inaccurately named Radial Ultra Association trilogy
  • Radial Ultra #6 ("ColdFusion" → "Prison", "Dutch courage", "Sexual abstinence" and "Top Ten")
The sixth game - it seems Wikipedians enjoy radiating words
  • Radial Ultra #7 ("True Lover's Knot" → "James Bond", "Incineration", "Fireplace" and "Sunset Strip")
Seventh heaven?

Psychadelic

(Psychadelic games feature unusual ultra ideas. Most of them are started by Xhin.)

The first game of Psychadelic Word Association; featured ten words in random places.
Featured four unknown words that had to be guessed at.
In possibly the best effort of word associationists, you had to play the game like psychadelic #1, except all of the first letters are fixed, some of them t, e, a, e, or s. There were only three letters remaining at the end. Well done.
In this edition, you had to Expand out the entire table from one word, reaching all four corners of an 8x8 grid.
In this flavor, you had to-- Well, why don't you read the instructions for yourself?
Your run of the mill radial word association, with one exception...

Misc

(An archive of different game concepts that haven't had four in a series yet.)

  • Radial Ultra Cross #1 ("One" → "Word surfing champion", "Percussion", "War Pigs" and "Human evolution")
The first game of Radial Ultra Cross Association. The start letters were: "W O R D A S S O C I A T I O N" (vertical) and "C R O S S" (horizontal, centred on the 'O' of 'association')
The second game of Radial Ultra Cross Association. The start letters were "EMERALD", "RINGS" across and "PEARLANDDIAMOND" down.
The third game of Radial Ultra Cross Association. The start letters were "SOUTH" and "CHINA" accross, and "DEUSEXMACHINA" down.
Radial Ultra association in reverse - start at the corners and work to the middle.
  • Enigmatic #1 (Scratching post, Garfield:The movie, pink panther, Dowsing rod, the internet movie database.)
The first game of Enigmatic. Was like a condensed version of psychadelic #2.
Like the Ultra Fixed association games, but the words don't associate with each other.
Same as last time but with different disassociations.
Associate with a sprial of disassociated words.

Players

Here is where you can place your name and become a common player.

Active players

Nickptar, Takitei, Rixth, User:fratboy, Hosterweis (talk) (contribs), Sirmob, Enkauston, GeeJo, CannotResolveSymbol, 24.83.111.176, Craig3410, Mark J, Snhivhitavae, Jimmyatic, Soo, Occono, jaurisova6, Braddie,  Grue , FunFuBarMan, RobyWayne,  Alfakim --  talk , Larrymels, Gururvishnu, Bearbear, gkhan, Catamorphism, Neoballmon, Akako|☎, Peter T.S., Stix, hydnjo, Malacandra, GVOLTT, WAvegetarian, Algebra, Luigi30, mikecb, MatthewF, Francs2000 , Cristi Is Awsome, PinkDeoxys, 86.145.132.168, Maltmomma (chat),  chsf , Thryduulf, Simply MP WriterFromAfar755, Sparky Lurkdragon, Whispering, Melaen, User:FlorenceWynne, dposse, 81.151.156.0, PhatePunk, mahlered, Phileas,   Jordy540 , Aaronak, Mazzy, Michaelritchie200, 64.229.218.70, Chegash, Rholton, T.o.n.y

Casually Observing Players

ANNA REXIA, Corey520, knoodelhed, PryItOpen, Kodukadvakch (KOE-due-KODD-vahk), Jonathan Weiss, Nil Einne, Yayasirrah, FrankCostanza, Dewar912, Milk77, Aquarius Rising, Xiagu, PrinceDog, Calibration, Ilyanep, mahlered, HappyCamper, Sceptre (Talk), ArkansasTraveler, gobeirne,  Xhin , Daniel, Ian Manka, Ghelae, Anthon, Majora4, Sotakeit, talktothehand07, Sonicrazy, Midgetmogget, Keeperoftheseal, Bubzie29!, Mproud Template:Jordanelder, MarinBeth

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