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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! Please use only blue links when associating. Piped links are acceptable in certain circumstances, such as [[Queen (band)|Queen]]. 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. Please note that this word limit should not be raised as well!

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

This is Game Number 16. If you want to see game #15, go here. Feel free to make branches if you wish.

Main Word: "Play-Doh"

Play-Doh, Hasbro, Asprin, Bayer, Blood thinner, Thinner, Stephen King, Carrie, Caries, Dentist, Pain, Mariah Carey, Mary Carey, Mary Kay, Mary Kate and Ashley, beauty, beast, Beast Wars, Breasts Not Bombs, Topfreedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, USA PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, Donald Rumsfeld, Schadenfreude, Epicaricacy, Scrooge McDuck, Tiny Tim, Christmas, Chrismukkah, Portmanteau, Portobello, Portillo's, Portcullis, siege, trebuchet, catapult, Dennis the Menace, Earl the Pearl, Earl Grey, My Name Is Earl, Jason Lee, Bruce Lee, Python Lee Jackson, Australia, Australian beer, Foster, Doctor Foster, Nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, Fiddle, Bluegrass, Banjo, Double bass, Fender, Stratocaster, Castor oil, Castor (band), Braid (band), The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, The Brady Bunch Movie, Behind the Laughter, Denis Norden's Laughter File, Outtake, Blooper, Bleep censor, Profanity, Profound, Kevin Federline, White trash, Trailer trash, Tractor-trailer, Bears, Goldilocks, Blonde, Bombshell, "I want a divorce!", Custody battle, Kramer vs. Kramer, Dustin Hoffman, feather duster, Feather boa, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Ducks Unlimited, Guardian Unlimited, Jedi Guardian, Jedi census phenomenon, WP:Consensus, Political systems, Political party, Green Party, Green Day, Red letter day, The Get Up Kids, You Get What You Give, What you see is what you get, As Good as It Gets, Jack Nicholson, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Rodney King, African American, Black Panthers, FLQ, IRA, South Quay DLR station, London, Soho, Soho Square, Four Square, sphere, Circle, Diameter, Pi, Proof that 22 over 7 exceeds pi, Bullshit, Profanity, WP:NOT#CENSORED, Censorship, Censorship in Portugal, Portuguese Man o' War, Bluebottle, 10 Green Bottles, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Fugly, Moe Szyslak, Barney Gumble, Belch, Burper, Indigestion, Oliver!, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Bildungsroman, Roman building, Rome, Toga, Cloak, Dagger, House of Flying Daggers, House of cards, Bridge (card game), Contract, Disease, Bubonic plague, Smallpox, Bioterrorism, Biology, Campbell, Soup, Spoon, Spork, Spiel, Talk, Jargon, Lingo, Paralanguage, Pig Latin, Pidgin, Taglish, tagline, Slogan, "Imagination at work", NBC, The more you know, Education, education, education, Procrastination, Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, George W. Bush's Complete Waste of Lives, "Duck! He's got a gun!", Duck Hunt, Duck the Great Western Engine, Lame duck, Wilford Brimley, Uncle Albert, Alberto VO5, Peugeot 206, Renault, The Chocolate War, War of the Worlds, Alien, Ripley, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Niagara Falls, Ontario Wonderfalls, Wonder Woman, Golden Wonder, Small Wonder, Small Soldiers, Soldier, Super Soldier, Captain America, Team America: World Police, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, South Korea, Starcraft, Aliens, Illegal immigration, deportation, Exile, Persona non grata, Madhouse (1990 film), Home, Fly Away Home, Home Sweet Home, Home and Away, Neighbours, Next Door, I'll take Door #3, Monty, Monty Hall problem, Problem, Square root of negative one, eye, Beer goggles, Hangover, Hanover, Kansas, Dust in the wind, Dust Bowl, Bowl of petunias, Infinite Improbability Drive, Warp Drive, Zip Drive, Floppy drive, Erectile dysfunction, Viagra, micropenis, Elephantitis, The Elephant Man, Chimera, Panera Bread, Pantera, Pangaea, Tectonic plate, Madagascar, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Dreamworks, Clouds, Little Fluffy Clouds, Marshmallow fluff, Somerville, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Lord's Cricket Ground, Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Old Farmer's Almanac, Poor Richard's Almanac, Autumn Almanac, Lola, Charlie and Lola, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, Switch Bitch, Switcheroo, Kangaroo, Australia, Uluru, Botany Bay, HM Bark Endeavour, Tree Bark, Xylem, Phylum, Phlegm, Bronchitis, Mucus, Nose, Rhinorrhea, Cold, Nesh, Nashville, Tennessee, America, American Woman, The Guess Who, The Who, Who what when where why how, The Who, What, Or Where Game, Fallacy of many questions, Questions, only answers, Riddles, Guess Who?, Faces, Rod Stewart, Rod Flanders, The Simpsons, not so funny anymore, Fatigue, Side effects, antidepressants, antidisestablishmentarianism, Church of England, Anglican church, Cathedral, Cathedral Song, Choir, preaching to the choir, Hallelujah, Halle Berry, Die Another Day, Stay of execution, Electric chair, Texas, Dallas, City, Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob SquarePants, Sponge, Parazoa, Amoeba, Amoebiasis, Amoeba Boys, Boyband, Party Posse, Justin Timberlake, Lake Erie, Erie Canal, New York State Thruway Authority, British Waterways, A man, a plan, a canal. Panama, Bermuda, Isosceles Triangle, 3 (number), Natural number, Imaginary number, Imaginary friend, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Foster's Beer, Bitter, Butter, Batter, Fish, Jellyfishing, Skinny-dipping, Hot tub, Boilerplate, Boil, Skin, Bone, Skeleton, Biology, Zoology, Veterinarian, James Herriot, OBE, Medal of Freedom, Free Hat, Stovepipe hat, Fedora, Masonic lodge, Econo Lodge, The Global Economy, Illegal drug trade, Tony Montana, Cuba, Fidel Castro, 638 Ways to Kill Castro, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, The Bachelor (film) Bachelor party, Strippers, Prostitution, Illegal activities, Victimless crimes, Prosecution, Persecution, Genocide, Raphael Lemkin, Rafael Palmeiro, Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, Playing hooky, Nostalgia, Disco, Funk, Odour of Pure Time Leaking, Harlem Globetrotters, James Naismith, Joe Namath, Drunk, Grain Belt (beer), Bible Belt, Paper Moon, Paper Mario, Mario Andretti, Formula One racing, Monte Carlo Circuit, House of Grimaldi, House of Usher, Escort, Ford Escort, Henry Ford, William Clay Ford, Jr., Firestone, Bridgestone, Michael Schumacher, McLaren F1, Function key,

Word count is 397/400 as of word: Function key.

Branch: "Schadenfreude" (Closed)

Schadenfreude, Pull a Homer, Nuclear meltdown, Tuna melt, Club Sandwich, Subway, Footpath, South West Coast Path, Pacific Coast Highway, State highway, Freeway, Toll road, M6 Toll, M6 Bayonet, cuts, Cuts Like a Knife, Mack the Knife, Shark, Loan shark, Hammerhead shark, Chordata, Metadata, Metatalk, Metafiction, Metafilter, Death Metal, Full Metal Panic, Don't Panic, Red Alert, Basement Jaxx, Jack (device), Jackhammer, MC Hammer, M.C. Escher, Infinity, Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story, Sheriff Woody, I Shot The Sheriff, Who shot J.R.?, Cliffhanger, Branch, Word association, lemon demon, Lemon Law, The Market for Lemons, Lemonade, Gatorade, Aligator, Crocodile, Pedophile, Foot fetish, Podiatry, Osgood-Schlatter disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Jakob the Liar, Jakob (band), Deja Voodoo, Voodoo Chile, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss this guy, Kissimmee, Mississippi, Missouri, Miss Marple, Murder, She Wrote, Angela Lansbury, Fire-walking, Mind over matter, Matterhorn, French horn, French toast, French leave, racial slur, Dutch courage, Dutch oven, Wilford Brimley, Family heirloom.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Family heirloom (branch closed).

Branch: "Hey Diddle Diddle" (Closed)

Hey Diddle Diddle, Cat, Curiosity killed the cat, That Darn Cat!, Walt Disney, Roger Meyers, Sr., Cryopreservation, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Piltdown Man, Pitfall Harry, Leisure Suit Larry, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Hobbes, Denzel Washington, Man on Fire, Burning Man, American Dad, The Cosby Show, Bill Cosby, Kids Say the Darndest Things, darning, Damning, Hellfire and Dalmatians, 101 Dalmations, HTTP 404, Link rot, Link (zelda), Link (UK), Link (knot theory), Slip knot, Slipknot (band), Record label, Rough Trade, Fair Trade, Fair Tax, Income tax, Al Capone, Elliot Ness, Kevin Costner, Razzie Award for Worst Actor, Academy Award for Best Actor, Raging Bull, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bulletproof Monk, Art Monk, American Football, Italian Football, Italy, Pizza, Debugging, Raid, RAID, Server, Apache HTTP Server, Black Hawk, Black Hawk Down, Owen Wilson, Owen Hargreaves, Bayern Munich, Red Bull New York, Red Bull, Wings, Buffalo, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo., Torpenhow Hill, Sellafield, BNFL, BP.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: BP (branch closed).

Branch: "WP:Consensus" (Closed)

WP:Consensus, Consent, Age of consent, Jailbait, Alizée, Moi... Lolita, Gothic Lolita, Alien Sex Fiend, Garbage, Recycle Bin, Windows 95, Mac OS X, IBM OS/2, Aptiva, Activia, Radioactive, Einsteinium, e=mc², a²+b²=c², right triangle, myriagon, Sphere, Earth, pear, I Had a Little Nut Tree, Beech-Nut, Butternut, Nutella, Nutri-sweet, Nutri-grain, Iron man food, Tennis elbow foot, Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman, Wimbledon, North Dakota, Dakota Territory, Louisiana Purchase, France, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon Complex, Napoleon Dynamite, trite, Tripe, Rumen, Bovid, Buffalo, New York, Flavor of Love, Spice Girls, Spicy, Curry, Kelly Kapoor, Kelly Kapowski, Screech, Newfoundland Screech, Screech Owl, Hedwig, mohawk, Mohican, New England, New Hampshire, Liquor store, Kwik-E-Mart, Co-op, Green Shield Stamps, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Thin Blue Line, Rowan Atkinson, Bean (film), Bean ball, Beanbag, Hacky sack, Hockey puck, Hamburger, Burger King, Smoothie King, Male pattern baldness, Hair Wars, Star Wars.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Star Wars (branch closed).

Branch²: "Alien Sex Fiend" (Closed)

Alien Sex Fiend, steve vai, minuscule, micropenis, Micro Machines, nano machines, microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, scientist, Mad scientist, The Nutty Professor, Jerry Lewis, Professor Frink, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh Hefner, Bathrobe, Towel, Moist towelette, Lemon-soaked paper napkins, Shoe Event Horizon, Brontitall, Share and enjoy, Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, Dog star, Keanu Reeves, Wood, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, Little Red Riding Hood, Wolf, Wolfsbane, Fox Broadcasting Company, 20th Century Fox, The Fox and the Hound, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, Roman alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, Sesame Street, Grover, Garbage truck, Dustbin lorry, U2, UuU, Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles, Archive, The Internet Archive, Nostalgia, Galaxian, Space Invaders, Spaced Invaders, Mr. Spacely, Mel Blanc, Bugs Bunny, Space Jam, 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), Battlestar Galactica, Chariots of the Gods, Stargate, Beam Me Up, Scotty, Jack Daniels, Jack Russell, Terrier, Boston University, Comm Ave, Commercial, Monopoly, Old Kent Road, Yellow Brick Road, Wizard of Oz, Lion, Tigers, Bears, Oh My, Goodness Gracious Me, Meera Syal, Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite, Replacement Killers, John Woo, Heroic bloodshed.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Heroic bloodshed (branch closed).

Branch: "Belch" (Closed)

Belch, Belchertown, Massachusetts, Bad Windsheim, Who Moved My Cheese?, Edam, Wensleydale, Wallace and Gromit, claymation, Corpse Bride, Copse, Silverstone Circuit, Damon Hill, Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3, Epizeuxis, Science, Brainiac: Science Abuse, MythBusters, Adam Savage, Dan Savage, Fred Savage, The Boy Who Could Fly, Fly Me To The Moon, Man on the Moon, Andy Kaufman, Borat, High-five, rest, Remainder, Division, Joy Division, New Order, Reshuffle, Repeat, Television, Reality TV, Survivor, Survivor guilt, PTSD, ADHD, AD&D, Revenge of the Nerds, Revenge of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, Pope Benedict, Eggs Benedict, Nest egg, Curate's egg, Scrambled eggs, Breakfast, Lunch, Ladies who lunch, Girls Just Want To Have Lunch, White and Nerdy, Beavis and Butt-Head, Starsky and Hutch, Stroker and Hoop, Hula hoop, Hoop Dreams, REM, Shiny Happy People, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Radiohead, Karma Police, Fashion Police, SWAT, Mosquito, Net, Angling, Anglerfish, Weeverfish, Bangus, Tinola, Tinnitus, Tin, Tintin, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Lassie.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Lassie (branch closed).

Branch: "Lingo" (Closed)

Lingo, VOIP, Vonage, Bon voyage, Titanic, White Star Line, Liverpool, River Mersey, Mercy Mercy Me, Poirot, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, Miss Marvel, Marvel Comics, Spiderman, World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Lovejoy, MTV, The Real World, Ivory Tower, Tower of Babel, Babel, Skyscraper, The Towering Inferno, Backdraft, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Happy Gilmore, Happy Days, Salad days, Salad Anniversary, SaladShooter, Shooter McGavin, Bob Barker, Shrek 2, East Stirlingshire 0, European Starling, Tim Starling, Clarice Starling, Julianne Moore, The Hours, Happy hour, The Housemartins, House marten, House Party, National Lampoon's Animal House, John Belushi, The Blues Brothers, Drake and Josh, Nickelodeon, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Time and Punishment, The Simpsons, Futurama, Bowl-O-Rama, Barney Gumble, Duff Beer, Duff Man, Buzz Cola, Buzz (airline), Buzz Lightyear, Goodyear, dirigible, Blimp, Duff, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Father, George Washington, Apple tree, Granny Smith, Grandma Moses, Edwin Moses, Edwina Curry, Edina Monsoon, Rice, White, White Album.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: White Album (branch closed).

Branch: "Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time" (Closed)

Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, And now for something completely different, Antipodal point, Opposite, Attraction, Rules of Attraction, Rules of Engagement, Marriage, Las Vegas, Poker, Texas hold 'em, List of Texas state prisons, Prison, Prison Break, Metal fatigue, Salsa Escape, Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayze, Ghost, The Flying Dutchman, Jos Verstappen, Jan Flinterman , Fred Flintstone, Bedrock, Stone Age, Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R, Pirate, Pirated Music, Music To Watch Girls By, Girls Gone Wild, Feral children, Mowgli, Orangutan, Librarian, Jocasta Nu, Damita Jo, Janet Jackson's boob, Titmouse, Birdwatching, Bill Oddie, The Goodies, At Last the 1948 Show, That 70's Show, That '80s Show, Spin-off, Plop: The Hairless Elbonian, Pop Goes the Weasel, Treacle, Sorghum syrup, Syrup of Figs, Fig Newton, Isaac Newton, Apples, Gravity, Space, Spacetime, The Time Machine, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth, David J. Stevenson, David Jones, Davy Jones' Locker, Six Feet Under, Underground, London Underground, Underground Mall, PATH, Sidewalk, Built To Spill, Overflow, Dam, Darn, Socks, Bill Clinton, Impeachment, Constitution, Constipation, Dietary fiber.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Dietary fiber (branch closed).

Branch: "Elephantitis" (Closed)

Elephantitis, Elephant, Elephant and Castle, London Underground, Harry Beck, Engineer, Car, Windshield, Fly, Infield Fly Rule, French kissing, Freedom fries, Anti-French sentiment in the United States, French Lick, French fries, Trans fat, Fatty acids, Chemistry, Science, Fiction, Dodgy Dossier, Draft dodger, George W. Bush, W, Tungsten, Periodic table, Dmitri Mendeleev, Russia, Prussia, Prussian Blue, Midnight Blue, The Thin Blue Line, The Thin Red Line, Red Dawn, Red Tide, Red Dwarf, Craig Charles, Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury, Marlborough, Missouri, Mississippi, The Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, Henry repeating rifle, Repeater, Copycat, Top Cat, top hat, Stovepipe hat, Abraham Lincoln, Ford's Theatre, Henry Ford, Ford Model T, Ford GT, Dragon Ball GT, Gifted and Talented, Me, You, Part-time Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Lady Is a Tramp, Lady and the Tramp, Trampoline, Oh my God! Tramampoline! Trambopoline!, Saxomophone, oboemabo, viomolin and tubamaba, Chumbawamba, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, Meximelt, Mexicana, !Hola, amigo!, Guten Tag!, Greeting, Hallmark, Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, Domo, Anno Domini, Common Era, Modernism.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Modernism (branch closed).

Branch²: Hallmark

Hallmark, Deck the Halls, Fa la la la la la la la la, epizeuxis, Ho Ho Ho, Catchphrase, Am I bovvered? Tate St Ives, Yves St Laurent, St Lawrence Seaway, Grand Union Canal, Grand Union Railway, Grand Funk Railroad, Grand Central Railway, Train, Wedding dress, White, White elephant, Pink elephant, Pretty In Pink, Pink Panther, Steve Martin, Cows With Guns, Weebl's Stuff, The Right Stuff, Gus Grissom, Gus Griswald, Reese's Puffs, Powerpuff Girls, Genetic engineering, Stem cell research, Michael J. Fox, Back to the Future, Time travel, Freejack, Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Geriatric, Old age, Retirement home, Creamed corn, Sour Cream, Sour Grapes, Wine, Cheese, Mold, Mildew, Moisture, Rust, Rusty Shackleford, Alamo Beer, Alamodome, Texas, Utah, Brigham Young, L. Ron Hubbard, Beck, Where It's At, Yodel, Wind It Up (Gwen Stefani song), Harajuku Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, Sex shop, Sex tourism, Bangkok, Don Mueang International Airport, IATA airport code, FIE, FIFA, NAFTA, Amerika (song), South Amerika,

Word count is 73/80 as of word: South Amerika.

Branch: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (Closed)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Veruca Salt, smelling salts, "If ya smellllllll what The Rock is cookin'!", Body odor, British Airways, Concorde, Entente Cordiale, Cordial, Cordon Bleu, Breast cancer, Sheryl Crow, Soak Up the Sun, Here Comes the Sun, Here Comes Trouble, Double Trouble, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Clarissa Explains It All, Melissa Joan Hart, Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, Scary Movie, Damon Wayans, Damon Hill, Steamin' Demon, Demon Deacon, Deacon Blues, Deacon Blue, John Deacon, Nike-Deacon, Joey Deacon, Joey Tribbiani, Alanis Morissette, Ironic, Iron, Trouser press, Printing press, Scholastic Press, First grade, Child, Youth, Oedipus complex, Mother, your mom, is ugly, Bearded Lady, Bearded clam, Steamed clams... no er Steamed Hams, Green Eggs and Ham, Sam I Am, I am Sam, I Am Spock, Leonard Nimoy, The Hobbit, Elijah Wood, Woody Allen, Howard Alden, Sweet and Lowdown, Sweet Caroline, Radio Caroline, Radio Ga Ga, Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Evil, Evel Knievel, Bart the Daredevil, Steve Bartman, Steve Buscemi, Bust, Juggs, Liar Liar, Jim Carrey, The Grinch, Ron Howard, Freckles, Kate Austen.

Word count is 80/80 as of word: Kate Austen (branch closed).

Branch: "Nose"

Nose, Atchoo!, onomatopoeia, Cassiopeia, Tapioca, Catalytic converter, Platinum, Platte River, Cleft palate, Crimson Chin, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Sheep in the Big City, Shaun the Sheep, Lamb Chop, Muppets, Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, Homer J. Simpson, D'oh!, Nuts, Mixed Nuts, Fruit and Nut, Chocolate with Nuts, Dark Chocolate, White Chocolate, White Wedding, Whiteness, Albinism, Blinded By The Light, Bruce Springsteen, USA, Uncle Sam, Smokey the Bear, Smokey Robinson, Motown, Detroit Rock City, New Jack City, Jackass, Just for Laughs Gags, Laughing, Crying, Lacritin, Glands, Sweat Gland, Sweat and sour pork, Cream of Sumyungai, Lowbrow, Saatchi, Satchel, Satchel Paige, Negro league baseball, African American, Martin Luther King Jr., Black History Month, February, Robert Wagner, Richard Wagner, death, Riverworld, Sea World, Marineland (Ontario), Ottawa Senators, Ottawa, Capital, Letter (alphabet), The Scarlet Letter, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Deja vu, Glitch in the Matrix, Kung-Fu, Kung Fu Hustle, Chiu Chi Ling, Jackie Chan, Rush Hour, Gridlock, Road rage, anger, Groundskeeper Willie,

Word count is 79/80 as of word: Groundskeeper Willie

Branch: "Electric chair"

Electric chair, Volta, Ampere, Electromagnetism, Magnetic levitation, Monorail, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bridge of Sighs, Bridge of Hope, London Bridge, Fergie, Teddy, Teddy Sheringham, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Rigby, Penny Lane, Lois Lane, Newspaper, Press, Play, Chess, Pawn, Pawnbroker, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Jellystone National Park, Ranger Smith, Ranger Stacey, Ranger Rick, Rescue Rangers, Talespin, Phil Harris, Phil Hartman, Hi I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from such films as..., Acting, Calculon, Matt Groening, Canada, Quebec, Vancouver, Kamloops, British Columbia, BC (years), Anno Domini, 1985, Nevado del Ruiz, Pompeii, Up Pompeii!, Ron Popeil, Infomercial, Stop the Insanity!, Insane in the Brain, Schizophrenia, Word salad (mental health), Caesar salad, Confused, Mental Block , Mentally retarded,

Word count is 66/70 as of word: Mentally retarted.

Branch: "Strippers" (closed?)

Strippers, Mons Venus, Wyclef Jean, Cannabis (drug), Carl Sagan, Patrick Moore, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day, Grain Belt (beer), Binge drinking, Bungee jumping, Death wish, Emo (music), The Cure, Boys Don't Cry (album), Big Girls Don't Cry, Boys and Girls, Girls & Boys, Men and Women, Little Women, Wonder Woman, Wonderwall, Waterfall, Waterfalls (song), Left Eye, Arson, Backdraft, Miller Genuine Draft, Lager, Booze cruise

Word count is 30/30 as of word: Booze cruise. (branch closed in some ways)

Other Games


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, with 400 words in the main branch and 5 other branches totaling another 510 words.
  • Game #7 ("Tram" → "Tom Bombadil")
The seventh word association game.
  • Game #8 ("NIMBY" → "Crystal Cave")
The eighth word assocation game, with branches "King", "AAA", "Dudley" and "Iowa".
The ninth word assocation game, with three normal branches and a branch of a branch.
  • Game #10 ("Pennsylvania" → "Alphabet soup")
The tenth word association game, with 400 words and four branches.
The eleventh word association game, with 400 words and four branches.
The twelfth word association game, with branches "The Sims", "Skyscraper", "Paddy wagon" and "K2"
  • Game #13 ("High Force" → "Pease Porridge Hot")
The thirteenth word association game, featuring the branches "Indian Reservation," "Bandit," "Hopscotch," and "I, Robot."
  • Game #14 ("Reflectance" → "Chewbacca Defense")
Game number 14 ended up having no fewer than ten branches, three of which were branches of other branches! The branches were: "Mirror," "Pansy," "The Final Solution," "Super Mario Kart," "Robinson Crusoe," "Big Ben," "Insect," "Guinness," "Vincent Van Gogh," and "Mustache."
With ten total branches (one twig and one branch of another branch), this game was a whole lotta fun!

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!
No myths about this 9th game, just word associations.
What do Monty Python and taxidermy have in common? Find out here...
From a small English village to tropical produce in 105 easy steps!
There's a lot of space in this game!
No bad luck, just traditional Chinese medicine to American popular culture via Latin.
quite humorous choice for the last word (a disguised duplication!).
Sex, violence and Walt Disney!
Railways featured heavily in this game.
Monarchs and the United States
Another game with a lot of words related to the United States

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
A somewhat European game!
From a god to a ship via Birmingham, Discworld and the Soviet Union
Another eclectic gathering including Desperate Housewives, Meat Loaf and Shrinkwrap.
  • Ultra Fixed #11 ("Kidwelly railway station" → "The Goodies and the Baddies")
From Rural Wales to a British comedy via American Football? Only on Wikipedia!
Don't know what Gypogyna means? Neither do most people, but find out here how it links to tournament!
This game included a lot of fattening food, but also a famine!
Judaism, Easter and Monty Python!
Horses, New Jersey and Boxing

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?
  • Radial Ultra #8 ("Beit Al Qur'an" → "Punch", "Poverty", "Legendarium" and "Colon")
The eighth game, I'm sure you understand it all by now.
  • Radial Ultra #9 ("World Sevens Series" → "π", "Slapstick", "Can't Sleep, Clown will eat me" and "Orange Juice")
Game number nine; a rip-roaring ride of fun!
  • Radial Ultra #10 (Sam Brown (Rastafari) → "Calories", "Shoe", "George VI of the United Kingdom" and "Plasma TV")
The Radial game goes to double figures
  • Radial Ultra #11 (Toronto dollar → SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, The Winner Takes It All, Listen with Mother and British Empire)
Lucky legs eleven for Radial Ultra
  • Radial Ultra #12 (Derek Jameson → The Frog Princess, Jackson, Robert Victor, Barney Gumble and Antivenin)
Actually there are some who would compare Derek Jameson to Barney Gumble... find out what else they have in common!
  • Radial Ultra #13 ("St. Andrew's College, Dublin" → "Music", "1972 Summer Olympics", "Lorem ipsum" and "Saddell Abbey")
Saints, Scotland and Royalty!
  • Radial Ultra #14 ("Horace Fletcher" → "Engrish", "All terrain vehicle", "Run-of-the-mill" and "Creation-evolution controversy")
Cars and Australian fauna.

Radial Ultra Cross

(Radial ultra cross games begin in the center of a 7x15 table and expand outwards with predetermined letters forming a cross shape.)

  • 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" across, and "DEUSEXMACHINA" down.
  • Radial Ultra Cross #4 ("North Sea" → "Isaac", "Killing In The Name", "Prawn Cocktail" and "Green curry")
The fourth game of Radial Ultra Cross Association. The start letters were "L SANGER" across, and "JIMMY DONAL WALES" down.
The start letters were "CIVITAS" across, and "QUEEN ELIZABETH 2" down.
The start letters were the letters of the alphabet from A to U radiating out clockwise from the centre. Additionally V, W, Y and X were start letters for the corner cells.
  • Radial Ultra Cross #7 ("Trinity, Jersey" → "Cruise ship", "Christianity", "Sogn og Fjordane" and "Quadruped")
The start letters were "ELIZABETH CASTLE" down and "FORTIFY" across. Quite a European game with emphasis on Belgium and Scandinavia!
The start letters were "BRITISH RAILWAYS" down and "AMTRACK" across. Turned into quite a religious game if you count caravanning and comic books as religion...

Reverse Radial Ultra

Radial Ultra association in reverse - start at the corners and work to the middle.
The second game of working towards the centre from the corners
  • Reverse Radial Ultra #3 ("Varduli", "Andover, South Dakota", "Yi Yi: A One and a Two" and "Claus Spahn" → "The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarve")
The third game that became strangely syncronised towards the centre
War and heavy metal
Quite a lot of food in this one!
  • Reverse Radial Ultra #7 ("Highways Act 1980", "Carluke", "Architecture in London" and "Greg Graffin" → "Stephen King bibliography")
Fantasy novelists, Beatles songs and various cities all have this in common
  • Reverse Radial Ultra #8 ("Only Fools and Horses", "Tactical Divers Group", "Bundesverdienstkreuz" and "Meremere" → "Violence")
Along with British and American culture and swimming, violence was prevalent in this game.
Queens, consorts and dogs with a little bit of baseball.

Psychadelic

(Psychadelic games feature unusual ultra ideas. Games are started by Xhin, Thryduulf, and Francs2000. )

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...
A remake of game #1, this time the words were the names of islands and the word "island" was prohibited.
A development on the 10 islands idea, except the starting words were placed in a diamond pattern around the board.
Another 10 islands game, this time the words were all related to 10, so "10" and "Ten" were prohibited.
Ultra association, but words must associate to all adjacent ones and one from a list - which one depends on how many letters were in the previously added word!

Sliding Doors

(Sliding Doors associations are two parallel games of ultra association with the same start word)

Based on the film Sliding Doors, this was two games of ultra fixed in one. This game inspired the other Sliding Doors associations.
Two games of ultra association in one
One game featured the Soviet Union heavily, while Star Trek and insects featured in the other.
One game was quite eclectic with astrology, deities, queens and sweets. London and Manchester predominated in the other.

Misc

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

  • 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.
  • Enigmatic #2 (Tuxedo, Channel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles, Dominoes, Microwave)
Like the first Enigmatic game, although this took a little longer.
Like the normal assocation games, but with words not associated with the previous one.
Like the Ultra Fixed association games, but the words don't associate with each other.
Same as last time but with different disassociations.
Same as last two times but with different disassociations.
Associate with a spiral of disassociated words.
Each player adds one word, and selects location of next move, and whether to associate or disassociate.
WA with a purpose?!
Word association with a goal?!

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