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 #8!
Main word: 'NIMBY'
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,
- Word count: 198/400 as of word Apple sauce
Branch: 'King'
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,
- word count: 104/150 as of word Jessica Simpson
Branch: 'AAA'
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,
- word count: 66/150 as of Cape Feare
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: 'Skitzo'
In this game, the initial word was chosen by clicking the "Random article" link.
Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)
Ultra Fixed Word Association: 'Jan Śniadecki'
| File:WA6.PNG | This Ultra Deviant has run six times or more. |
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: 'True Lover's Knot'
| File:WA6.PNG | This Ultra Deviant has run six times or more. |
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.
Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)
Radial ultra cross game: 'Martinique'
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 'Airport'
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.
Psychadelic Word Association: Alignment
This is your run of the mill radial word association, with one exception. Every word in a column must relate to the bolded word at the top of the column. And yes, you still have to associate with the words at the top. So for example, the word placed to the right of chicken will have to relate to both chicken and firefly.
Carry on.
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 |
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:
Wealth- Tuxedo votes: 24.27.61.102, Thryduulf, mahlered, 81.154.246.123, Melaen
Charlie Chan at Monte CarloBlackjack
2:
Surround soundvotes: No. User:Mac_DavisKick drumvotes:User:JeffStickney, User:Jordy540- Channel votes:User:JeffStickney, Phileas, Thryduulf, Mazzy, Whispering
3:
4:
- Dominoes votes: 24.27.61.102, User:JeffStickney, mahlered, Whispering
Chipsvotes: Mazzy, Tim from Leeds, 81.154.246.123, MelaenTipping
5:
- Spice votes: No. User:Mac_Davis, User:Jordy540, Aaronak
- Oven votes: JPadron
- Sampling votes: Mazzy
Mediterranean coast- Satellite dish
Orange Amp Co.- Microwave votes: 24.27.61.102, Tim from Leeds, 81.156.218.38
- Hot
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
- Total word count: 338/400 as of word Pansy Potter
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,
- Final word count: 82/80 as of Judas Iscariot. Branch closed
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'
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
- Total word count: 51/80 as of Scum
Ultra Fixed Word Disassociation: 'River Ystwyth' - Connection amid this chaotic world
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 second game was chosen as it was not associated with the first or last words of game 1 or with the random article (Fireman's Fund Insurance Company).
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.
| Associate | Associate | Associate | |||||||
| Associate | |||||||||
| Associate | Associate | Associate | |||||||
| Adelante | Non-banking financial company | Associate | |||||||
| Associate | Associate | Naked Mole Rat | Feldspar | Tammy Wynette | Associate | Dawlish Warren | Arsenal | ||
| Numismatist | Identity fraud | Lorikeet | Pompeii | Teletubbies | Fortnum and Mason | Angioplasty | |||
| Associate | Associate | Mountain dragon | Associate | Event horizon | |||||
| Associate | Associate | ||||||||
| Associate | Associate | ||||||||
| Associate | Associate | ||||||||
| Associate | Associate | ||||||||
| Associate | Associate | ||||||||
| Associate | Associate | ||||||||
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 placig either an "A" or a "D" anywhere in the grid that touches at least one word
| D:Conjunctivitis | ||||||
| A:Dead man's hand | A: Poker | D:Biophotonics | ||||
| D:Wiktionary | Dealer's choice | A:Urolagnia | ||||
| A:Etymology | A:Start | D:Urinal cake | ||||
| A | A: Cake mix | A:Gooey butter cake | ||||
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, 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)
- 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!
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
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
Psychadelic
(Psychadelic games feature unusual ultra ideas. All of them are started by Xhin.)
- 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?
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')
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Associate with a sprial of disassociated words.
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