Wikipedia:Department of Fun/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! 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.
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 #10!
Main word: 'Pennsylvania'
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Cheesesteak, cheddar cheese, Jibneh Arabieh cheese, Bedouin, Sahara Desert, Libya, Qadaffi, Quorn, Quorum, Quechua, Amerindian, Political correctness, Personal computer, Police Constable, Dixon of Dock Green, The Red Green Show, Ready Steady Go!, Race, Indianapolis 500, Galaxie 500, Galaxy Quest, Dead man's chest, Pirate, Blackbeard, Blackbird, Magpie, Maggie, Chow, Mao, China, Jack Bauer, Bowerbird, BB gun, Squirrel, Formby, Worm, Earth, Earthworm Jim, Slim Jim, Lock Pick, Key, The Key to Time, A Wrinkle in Time, Time, Epoch, Epona, Eponym, Homonym, Ceiling, Glass ceiling, Window, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Christo, Christ, Jesus, Jones, J'onn J'onzz, Joe Johnson, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, jellybean, Just Born, Only, Only the Lonely, Orbison, bison, jerky, Jerky Boys, jibberjabber, Jabberwocky, Go Ask Alice, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, There, Nowhere, Nowhere Man, The Beatles, Liverpool, England, Peter Crouch, Barty Crouch, Oscar the Grouch, Oscar, Grouch, Bin, Tote, Drag, Queen, King, Pawn, Yawn, scorn, Trip hop, Rip Torn, Animal husbandry, Buggery, Carpetbagging, Mary Poppins, Supercalifragalisticexpialadocious, Mahatma Gandhi, India, Pakistan, Stan, American Dad, Family Guy, Stewie, Stew, soup, Kitchen, Blender, Bender, Gender bender, Plant sexuality, pollination, Bees, Sting, Poison, Poison, dart, Lawn darts, pointillist, Artist, Goldsworthy, Gold, CMYK color model, cyan, #30D5C8, Turkish, Brothel, Prostitution, Red, Carthian Movement, McCarthyism, McDonalds, Trump, Bridge, Ace of Spades, Motörhead, Lemmy, lemon, Meringue, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Sister Act, Nuns, Penguins, Tux, Speedo, Beaches, Beech, Fagaceae, Fag, Gaf, Gaffer, Key grip, Key fob, Key chain, chainmail, E-mail, blackberry, Blueberry, Boysenberry, Boyz N the Hood, Ghetto, NWA, Northwest Airlines, Northwest Passage, A Passage to India, Passage, Anus, Sex, 6, 666, Satan, Orbital, Cradle of Filth, Cradle of Life, Tomb Raider, Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Anne Rice, Chow Mein, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Therapy, A Clockwork Orange (film), Anthony Burgess, Burgess Meredith, Meredith Brooks, Bitch, Dog, Spaniel, Spanish, Spanish flu, Spanish fly, Ras el hanout, Aphrodite, Greece, Olympic Games, World War II, World War I, Roman numerals, Sundial, Mondial, Soccer, "Sock it to me!", Sock puppet, Marionette, No Strings Attached, String theory, String, G-string, Thong, Sexy, Sex and the City, Waterloo and City, Waterloo Records, Waterloo, Abba, Black Sheep Boy, StarCraft, Star Wars, World of Warcraft, Worldwide Pants, WP, White Power Bill, Fight the Power,
- Word count 230 (out of the maximum 400) as of Fight the Power.
Branch: 'Epoch'
Epoch, Pleistocene, Geologic time scale, Age of the Earth, Young Earth creationism, Flat earth theory, Muslim flat-earth theories, Flat Earth Society, Charles K. Johnson, Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, Jack & Jill, Jack Johnson, JFK, Assassination, Mehmet Ali Agca, Vatican, Pope, Benedict, Eggs, Egghead, Vincent Price, Archaeology, shovel, Shovelhead, Saturday, Weekend, date, Fruit, Kiwifruit, Inuit, Steven Seagal, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Ross, Porter Goss, Central Intelligence Agency, FIHHC, Tom Robbins, red robin, red rover, Range Rover, Free-range egg, Free radicals, New Radicals, Gregg Alexander, Alexander the Great, Alexander in the Qur'an, Allah, Ella Fitzgerald, Apollo Theater, Apollo Creed, Apolo Ohno, Winter Olympics, Turin, Shroud of Turin, Cloud Atlas, Dark nebula, emission, Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Long title, Long Tall Sally, Mustang Sally, The Commitments, Ireland, Irish, Irish coffee, Alcohol, Whisky, Whiskas, Cat food, catnip, Nipple, bottle, cup, saucer, Milk, Milkshake, moustache, Handlebar, Bicycle, Bicycle Race, Lance Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Wapakoneta, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wiki Peak, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Royal National Park, Royal guard, Royal Roy, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Due South, South Park, Chef, Jamie Oliver, Sainsbury's, Salisbury, Salisbury Plain, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dealer's choice, Deal or No Deal, New Deal, FDR, GDR, Marxism, Marx Brothers, Warner Brothers, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Quack, Doctor, Doctor Who, "A Boy Named Sue", Johnny Cash, Cash register, bling-bling, Fen-phen, Phnom Penh,
- Word count 121 (out of the maximum 150) as of Phnom Penh.
Branch: 'Poison'
Poison, Arsenic, Old Lace, Gothic Lolita, Lolita, Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange, Glasgow Subway, Subway, Sandwich, Earl of Sandwich, Ear, Tinnitus, Bells, Whistles, thistles, Eeyore, birthday, unbirthday, Mad Hatter, Mercury poisoning, Heavy metal, Blast beat, Blast Corps, Peace Corps, Q Score, Q Continuum, Q Magazine, Queue, The Warehouse, Kabul, Cabal, Coven, Covet, Covellite, Naxalite, red, RGB, KGB, FBI, SBI, CIA, George H. W. Bush, H. W. Garrod, H. G. Wells, Wells, Somerset, Wells Fargo, Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Australia, Great Barrier Reef, Great Dividing Range, Blue Mountains, Blue Moon, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, ABC Warriors, ABC News, CNN, Sunrise, Sun Arise, Aeryn Sun, Farscape, event horizon, Verizon, wireless, WiFi, Hi-fi, Stereophonic, Stereophonics, Eardrum, Bass drum, Bomb the Bass, All your base are belong to us, The Game, The Streets, Dry Your Eyes, Tricky, Deceit,
- Word count 79 (out of the maximum 125) as of Deceit.
Branch: 'Nuns'
Nuns, Nuns on the Run, The Flying Nun, The Drowning Nuns, Opera, Oprah, Harpo, Groucho, Marx, Communism, China, Cuba, Cube, Hypercube, Tesseract, Fourth dimension, Time, Time Lord, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Shortcake, brownie, Girl scouts,
- Word count 22 (out of the maximum 100) as of Girl scouts.
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 eight Twelve?!! a lot of 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]] ||
The ultra game: 'Ickford'
In this game, the initial word was chosen by clicking the "Random article" link.
Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)
Ultra Deviants
Brief Synopsis
(Below is a listing of the games, what number they're on, and their descriptions. Please update this list when you archive a game.)
Fixed - 10 - The entire left and top have pre-made words.
Radial - 9 - You start from the middle and associate to the corners.
Radial Ultra Cross - 5 - You start from a fixed word, and associate to a certain letter in certain places, then expand outward like radial.
Reverse Radial - 3 - Start from the outside and work your way into a center square.
Psychadelic - 9 - Miscellaneous ideas
Enigmatic - 3 - Start with four fixed words spaced equally on a 3x3 grid, and guess at the words that could go in the blank spaces.
Sliding doors - 1 - Associate simultaneously on two grids.
Cubic - 1 - Associate not only by row and column, but by height.
Skein - 1 - A goal-oriented ultra association.
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. Five of the deviants have an adjective followed by "word association" or "ultra word association": Fixed, Radial, Psychedelic, Enigmatic, and Cubic; 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!
Ultra Fixed Word Association: 'Duval Street'
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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.
Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)
Radial ultra game: 'Sam Brown (Rastafari)'
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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 | |
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| F | |||||||
| G | Jamaica | ||||||
| H | Sam Brown (Rastafari) | ||||||
| I | |||||||
| J | |||||||
| K | |||||||
| L | |||||||
| M | |||||||
| N | |||||||
| O |
Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)
Radial ultra cross game: 'Indianapolis'
The rules are identical to the radial game, except that some of the initial letters are fixed (inspired by the 3rd psychedelic ultra game).
Reverse Radial Ultra game 'Varduli'
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 associate with all four surrounding words.
Psychadelic Word Association: Diamond association
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This is a cross between ultra fixed, radial ultra cross, reverse radial ultra and 10 islands games. Add your word anywhere where it is adjacent to at least one other word, but it must associate with all adjacent words. You must leave the gold cell until last. As there are 9 columns rather than the usual 7, please try to not to use excessively long words!
Grid-Size: 9x9 (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 | Bordello | #2 |
| Googly | #3 | Wolfenstein 3D |
| #4 | Raleigh International | #5 |
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!
1:
- Scoring - votes: Thryduulf, Michael J, Perimosocordiae
2:
3:
4:
- International cricket - votes: Phileas
5:
Sliding Doors association: 'Celtic literature'
Inspired by the film Sliding Doors, this is in effect two games of ultra association in one - above and below the silver line. You must add one word to both games each turn, but you must use different words. You may not use a word in the top game that has been used already in the bottom game and vice versa. The idea is to see how different the games turn out.
Grid-Sizes: 7x9 (do not expand)
Cubic Ultra Word Association
Cubic Ultra Word Association is similar to Ultra Word Association, except it is three-dimensional. Instead of each word appearing in a square in a two-dimensional space, in CUWA each word is in a small cube set in a larger cube.
In addition to connecting words across and down, you can also connect words up or down a layer. This means that once you get beyond the first row, each word will have to relate to three others.
Because three-dimensional computer screens are not yet commonplace, some concessions must be made to display a three-dimensional game on a two-dimensional screen. The image at right is a representation of the big cube, with little cubes marked off. In the 4×4×4 game illustrated, each layer (marked by Greek letters) is shown by a separate grid, with each grid having coordinates a-d and 1-4.
The starting word (selected at random) is placed in block a1 on level α. The second word could then go in either b1 or a2 on level α, or in a1 on level β. Similarly, if you put a word in block c2 on level γ, it must associate with the words in c1 and b2 on γ, as well as c2 on β.
The game can probably be played with larger cubes, but I figured 4×4×4 is a good size to start with. — Michael J
α
a
b
c
d
1
Martinique
Carribean
Archipelago
Philippines
2
Martin Short
Jungle 2 Jungle
Macronesia
3
Martin Shaw
4
Marten
γ
a
b
c
d
1
Yemen
Divided regions
38th parallel
2
3
4
δ
a
b
c
d
1
Aden
Eden
Garden
Soundgarden
2
3
4
Skein Association
Welcome to Skein Association. This game plays like a normal ultra word association, except your associations have purpose, they have meaning, and they are useful for something.
For your first task, I'm just going to experiment with the Skein concept. Your goal is to "flip" the switch, by associating a line to it. This will clear out the blue spaces that you could not pass over before. Then, you must associate a line to the keeper of the gate, and "fight" it, by mirroring his association, with the same initial and final word, and the same amount of words in between, but different words in between. When you've defeated the keeper, turn the background color of the table red (#FFAAAA), and I will come by to archive it and present the next challenge.
You may not associate over a gray space. When you have flipped the switch, please remove all #5555FF's. They're easy to find, as they're all in a row.
When associating, you must associate with at least one word in any of the four adjacent directions.
You begin at the "nova" space, and can never associate with the other bolded spaces until you have touched them.
And don't forget that keeper, gate, nova, and switch must be associated to, as they are words too. Plan wisely. Good luck to all of you.
When you get this far, you have the starting and ending words, and the same amount of words in between, but must use completely different words to bridge the connection.
The enemy
Enemy // Relativism // Nihilism // Death // Passage
You (plural)
Enemy // Eric Bienemy // ?????? // ?????? // Passage
One last thing. If you are interested in this ultra deviant or are currently playing it, (or have made it, in my case), please put your name below:
- Xhin
- Thryduulf (I think I understand the first part, I don't understand anything after that)
- 24.27.61.102
- Phileas
- Perimosocordiae
- Ascatubay
Total: 6
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: Humour
Humour,
Star Trek,
Gilgamesh,
Faggots,
Rent,
Marmalade,
Wicca,
Brass,
Heffalump,
Circumstance,
Paris Gellar,
Pokémon,
Somebody Told Me,
Birds of the West Indies,
Balthasar,
The Mamas and the Papas,
Lake County, Montana,
Ethoxyquin,
Penrhyndeudraeth,
Missouri,
Denis Thatcher,
Interest,
Reading West railway station,
Mansun,
Kris Aquino,
Tubular Bells,
Zebra,
Nicolette Sheridan,
Horseradish,
Mozilla Firefox,
rice,
Kona,
Chiclet keyboard,
Fairy chess,
Dirty Den,
Marcia Cross,
Lung cancer,
Communism,
Banana,
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers,
Scrambled eggs,
Yesterday,
The Wurzels,
Teri Hatcher,
Shere Hite,
Mumbai,
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,
Henry IV of England,
Clavinet,
Port Stanley,
The Pixies,
Eva Longoria,
Bauxite,
The Hampster Dance,
Dad's Army,
Felicity Huffman,
Times New Roman,
Tennis,
Hymek,
Lemming,
Courvoisier,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fudge,
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World,
Necrophilia,
Pico,
American Idol,
Tuberculosis,
Jefferson Bible,
Cantaloupe,
How 2,
Metatarsal,
Bambi Meets Godzilla,
Inuit,
Oliver Cromwell,
Weird Al,
Encantadia,
Romana,
Confusion,
Word association,
Rudolph Giuliani,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
Girlfriend,
Planck units,
Aston Villa,
Seminary,
Medley: Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45,
Axe,
Cadbury's Creme Egg,
Shepton Mallet,
Lol,
Jaffa Cake,
Jean-Luc Picard,
blue jeans,
Billy Joel,
Coalpit Heath,
Yakult,
Theodolite,
Waffle iron,
Tera,
Secret Wars,
hakuna matata,
Brian Blessed,
Tuvok,
Quatrain,
In A Gadda Da Vida,
Breakfast,
Gilmore Girls,
Bishopric,
Alyssa Milano,
Charmed,
Parodius,
Woodstock,
Tintin,
Kwik Save,
Amarantine,
Car alarm,
Bananarama,
Ian Hislop,
Good Night, and Good Luck.,
Mr. Brightside,
Knuckle,
- Word count 122/400 as of word: Knuckle
Branch:Jefferson Bible
Jefferson Bible,
Thornbury, South Gloucestershire,
Melatonin,
Mulberry,
twigs,
Glue,
Ringo Starr,
Old Kent Road,
Idlewild,
Mary Poppins,
Absolute Zero,
Foxtrot,
Randolph Mantooth,
Semisonic,
Praseodymium,
E.T.A. Hoffman,
WWE Smackdown,
Harpsichord,
Llanddewi Brefi,
Easter Bunny,
Please,
QonoS,
Apocalyptica,
666,
Renault,
Arsenic and Old Lace,
Symphony No. 40 (Mozart),
Jeremy Clarkson,
Elliott Gould,
Emma,
Nero,
Ekka,
Armature,
Monroe Doctrine,
The Elephant Vanishes,
Persona non grata,
I, Monster,
Stadium Arcadium,
Martin Gardner,
Deal or No Deal,
Australia,
Engelbert Humperdinck,
Staind,
Terry Funk,
That's the Way God Planned It,
Sakashita,
The Joy Luck Club,
Daniel Boone,
- Word count 48/150 as of word: Daniel Boone
Ultra Fixed Word Disassociation: 'Aegyptus (Roman province)'
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 3.
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 :)
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.
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
In keeping with the turn-based nature of this game, the person who finishes the grid should have first dibs on archiving the old game and starting the next one, including choosing the starting word and move. For help, consult these Archiving Instructions. If, after 24 hours, the finished game is still left unarchived, then anyone can start the next one.
D
A:Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
A:freak show
A:the Coen Brothers
A:Brothers Grimm
D:The Brothers Karamazov
A: The Grand Inquisitor
A:Jelly
D:Birmingham
A:Evacuation
D:Aside
D:peanut butter
A:RFID
A: Phantom Stranger
D: Emergency!
A: ergonomics
A:Intelligent design
D:EEPROM
D:Irian Jaya
A:Paramana Strangers
A:Kool & the Gang
A: Peace
D:Buddha
Political science
A:Think tank
A: Blur
D:Panama Canal Zone
A:Fraggle Rock
A:Conflict diamonds
A:Mudslinging
A:Politics
D:Teri Hatcher
A:Fast
A: marionettes
A:Cecil Rhodes
D:Colossus of Rhodes
A:Theocracy
A:Cult of celebrity
A: Fast Food Rockers
A: One-hit wonder
A:Puppets
D:Katy Carmichael
D: Back in the USSR
A:Atheism
D:Surtsey
D:Exotic sphere
A: Benny Hill
A: Yellow Submarine
D:Hydraulics
A:Iceland
D:RMS Oceanic
A:RMS Titanic
A:Reykjavík
A: Oslo
D:Snakes on a Plane
D:Segway HT
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".
- Game #4 ("Unanimous" → "Sudoku")
- Our fourth word association game. Was limited to 400 words in the main branch, but several branches arose, including two invisible branches.
- Game #5 ("Rhymes" → "Internet")
- The fifth word association game.
- Game #6 ("France" → "Bunnicula")
- 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".
- Game #9 ("Sinus" → "kisekae")
- The ninth word assocation game, with three normal branches and a branch of a branch.
Ultra
(Ultra games are played out on a 7x15 table, associating from the upper left to the bottom right)
- Ultra game #1 ("Grid" → "Filippo Bruneleschi")
- The first Ultra Association game on a 7x15 grid.
- Ultra game #2 ("Bridle of Constantine" → "Men")
- Second Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15. The game only got to 7x14 when it ended.
- Ultra game #3("Melbourne Beach, Florida" → "Death")
- Third Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
- Ultra game #4 ("Duke of York's Theatre" → Soviet Union)
- Fourth Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
- Ultra game #5 ("Westbury, New York" → John Sperling)
- Fifth Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
- Ultra game #6 ("Serfdom" → Cocktail)
- Sixth Ultra-Association game, random seed on 7x15.
- Ultra game #7 ("King of Nepal" → Protectionism)
- Lucky sevens!
- Ultra game #8 ("Skitzo" → Iran-Contra Affair)
- No hiding behind the 8 ball during this game!
- Ultra game #9 ("Nils Johan Semb" → "1894")
- No myths about this 9th game, just word associations.
- Ultra game #10 (Temple Cloud → Nautilus)
- What do Monty Python and taxidermy have in common? Find out here...
Fixed
(fixed games are played on a 7x15 grid, starting with the top and left filled and going to the bottom right.)
- Ultra Fixed #1 ("Grazing" → "Circulatory system")
- The branch of an older game, with slightly different rules than ultra that started it all.
- Ultra Fixed #2 ("House" → "Sexual innuendo")
- The second ultra fixed game.
- Ultra Fixed #3 ("Barley" → "Middle of the road")
- The third ultra fixed game.
- Ultra Fixed #4 ("Calendar" → "Prize")
- The fourth ultra fixed game.
- Ultra Fixed #5 ("Middlesex" → "19 (song)")
- The fifth ultra fixed game.
- Ultra Fixed #6 ("Sunset" → "Bridge disasters")
- Wikipedians hit this game for 6!
- Ultra Fixed #7 ("California black oak" → "Blaine the Mono")
- Lucky or the seventh deadly sin? Look at the archive and decide for yourself
- Ultra Fixed #8 ("Jan Śniadecki" → "Jutland")
- A somewhat European game!
- Ultra Fixed #9 ("Khusaw" → "Ship")
- From a god to a ship via Birmingham, Discworld and the Soviet Union
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 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')
- Radial Ultra Cross #2 ("Romance" & "Nutrition" → Human Sexuality, Snow, Crop dusting, Shallow Hal)
- The second game of Radial Ultra Cross Association. The start letters were "EMERALD", "RINGS" across and "PEARLANDDIAMOND" down.
- Radial Ultra Cross #3 ("Martinique" → "Trekkie", "Exposure", "Northwest Passage" and "British Empire")
- The third game of Radial Ultra Cross Association. The start letters were "SOUTH" and "CHINA" accross, 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 "LSANGER" across, and "JIMMY DONAL WALES" down.
Psychadelic
(Psychadelic games feature unusual ultra ideas. Games 1 to 6 were started by Xhin. Thryduulf has started the games from number 7 onwards)
- The first game of Psychadelic Word Association; featured ten words in random places.
- Psychadelic #2: Four Flowers (Fruit! Corn! Roll! Cricket!)
- 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.
- Psychadelic #4: Big Bang (Middle Class, Port Wine, Stage, Empire State Building)
- 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.
- Psychadelic #8: Sliding Doors ("Sliding Doors" → "Dermatology" and "Province of Georgia")
- Based on the film Sliding Doors, this was two games of radial ultra in one. This game inspired the other Sliding Doors associations.
Misc
(An archive of different game concepts that haven't had four in a series yet.)
- Reverse Radial Ultra #1 ("Airport", "Abraham Simpson", "Blood type" and "Fire" → "Polar Bear")
- Radial Ultra association in reverse - start at the corners and work to the middle.
- Reverse Radial Ultra #2 ("Öland", "Water Newton", "The Boston Globe" and "Varlam Cherkezishvili" → "Jerusalem"
- The second game of working towards the centre from the corners
- 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 Engigmatic game, although this took a little longer.
- Disassociation #1 ("Chaos" → "The End")
- Like the normal assocation games, but with words not associated with the previous one.
- Ultra Fixed word disassociation #1 (Chaos → Not over until the fat lady sings)
- Like the Ultra Fixed association games, but the words don't associate with each other.
- Ultra Fixed word disassociation #2 (River Ystwyth → Gastropub)
- Same as last time but with different disassociations.
- Ultra Fixed word disassociation #3 (Goulash → The Song That Never Ends)
- Same as last two times but with different disassociations.
- Associate with a sprial of disassociated words.
- Dealer's Choice #1 (Dealer's choice → Mean Streets)
- Each player adds one word, and selects location of next move, and whether to associate or disassociate.
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