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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 How to Play 2 The Game 2.1 Main word: "Reflectance" (closed) 2.2 Branch: "Mirror" (closed) 2.2.1 Branch²: "Pansy" (Closed) 2.2.1.1 Branch of Branch²: "The Final Solution" (closed) 2.3 Branch: "Super Mario Kart" (closed) 2.4 Branch: "Robinson Crusoe" (Closed) 2.5 Branch: "Big Ben"(Closed) 2.6 Branch: "Insect"(closed) 2.7 Branch: "Guinness" (closed) 2.8 Branch: "Vincent Van Gogh" (closed) 2.8.1 Branch²: "Mustache" (closed) 3 Other Games 4 Archive of old games 4.1 Normal 4.2 Ultra 4.3 Fixed 4.4 Radial 4.5 Radial Ultra Cross 4.6 Reverse Radial Ultra 4.7 Psychadelic 4.8 Misc 5 Players 5.1 Active players 5.2 Casually Observing Players 5.3 Template

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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!

[edit] The Game

We are now on Game #14! Looking to see how Game 13 turned out? Check out the archive!

[edit] Main word: "Reflectance" (closed)

Reflectance, Mirror, Gregory Maguire, Gregory Peck, Atticus Finch, Argus Filch, Custodian, Groundskeeper Willie, The Shinning, The Shining (film), Shine (film), Geoffrey Rush, After the Goldrush, California Gold Rush, Prospecting, serendipity, Serenity, Firefly, The Firebird, Gibson Firebird, Paul McCartney, Wings, Terry Pratchett, Discworld, Disco, Disco ball, Saturday Night Fever, The Bee Gees, Isle of Man, Triangle, Square, Square dancing, Steps, Stairs, Climb, Mount Everest, K2, K9, German Shepard, Inspector Rex, T-Rex, T-bone, T-bone collision, Ford Probe, Anal probe, Cartman Gets an Anal Probe, Shopping cart, Golf cart, CART, Super Mario Kart, Luigi, Loo, Looe, Loose, Paris Hilton, Paris, France, Paris, Texas, Paris, Texas, Amnesia, Ammonia, Smell, Scent, Cent, Euro, Europe, European, The European, The New Yorker, Englishman in New York, Friends, Tom Selleck, Three Men and a Baby, Kindergarten Cop, Carlito's Way, Howards' Way, Howard's End, Land's End, John o' Groats, John O'Dreams, Land O' Lakes, Sacagawea, Silver dollar, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Wilding Davison, Emily Robison, Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, Llandoger Trow, Bristol, Channel, No. 5, Route, Root, Roots, The Roots, Musical ensemble, A popular beat-combo, Soul Calibur, Isabella "Ivy" Valentine, Eros, LOVE, Molecule, Atom, C. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons, Simpson in Milton Keynes, Wimbledon in Milton Keynes, John Maynard Keynes, John the Baptist, The Gospel of John, The Tao of Steve, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Zen, Fen, Big Ben, Ben Kweller, Helen Keller, Signing, Signature, John Hancock, Declaration of Independence, National Treasure, Nicolas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Julia Roberts, Hooker, John Lee Hooker, T.J. Hooker, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Tongue twisters, Pickled pepper, Dill, Salmon, Pink, Pinko, Plinko, Bunco, Bunker, Foxhole, The Fox and the Hound, Hound dog, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, John A. Costello, Taoiseach, Westminster, Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Canine, Feline, Beeline, Insect, Insectivore, Dragonfly, Dragonfly, Kevin Costner, Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds, Kevin Bacon, Six degrees of separation, Will Smith, Miami, Miami Vice, Hawaiian shirt, flower, stamen, Semen, Penis, Envy, Greed, Greed Is Good, Thatcherism, Tory, Tory, Tora Tora, Tora Bora, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Police, Every Breath You Take, Cascada, Cascade, The Cascades, Cascade Range, Cascade Brewery, Punky Brewster, Child star, Dana Plato, Philosophy, Bruces' Philosophers Song, Woolloomooloo, Darling Harbour, Darjeeling, Tea, Culture of England, pub, Pint, Guinness, Ale, Waggledance, Hampster Dance, Gerbil, Pet, Duck, Duck Duck Goose, Duck or grouse, choice, voice, chorus, Song, Beautiful Day, Perfect Day, Lou Reed, Lou Bega, Bob the Builder, Neil Morrissey, Morrissey, The Smiths, WH Smith, books, library, Congress, Parliament, Funkadelic, Funk, Punk, Sex Pistols, Lust, Lust for Life, Vincent van Gogh, Ear, Otolaryngology, laryngitis, calculus, whiteboard, Blackboard, Chalk, Calcium carbonate, Carbonara, Fettucine, Noodles, Flying Spaghetti Monster, The Munsters, Frankenstein's Monster, Young Frankenstein, The Young Ones, The Young and the Restless, Soap opera, WWE, Kayfabe, key fob, Keystone Cops, Good cop/bad cop, PTI, Parent-Teacher Association, Harper Valley PTA, Country music, CMA, AMA, model airplanes, Paper plane, Piledriver, Construction, Destruction, Obstruction, Grief, Remorse, defendant, Court, Judge, Dredd, Dreadlocks, Rastafarian, Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, Band Aid, Skin, Deep, Cistern, Stillsuit, sand dune, Midnight at the Oasis, Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Blackbeard, Treebeard, Richard Roundtree, Fruit Pastilles, Fig Newtons, Olivia Newton John, John Travolta, Pulp Fiction, Science fiction, Star Trek, Star Trekkin', William Shatner's musical career, Directv, Top Up TV, MadTV, Mad Magazine, Madness, George III, The Killing of Georgie, Georgie Porgie, Toto, Dorothy, The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd, Uncle Floyd, Uncle Ben's, Rice, Lice, L is for Labour, L is for Lice, Labor Day, Labour Day, Labour party, Laboratory, Analyse, Analyze This, Psychiatry, Frasier, Dad's Army, Major Dad, Major Disaster, Worms 2, Gremlins 2, Critters, Whangdoodle, Chupacabra, Abracadabra, Sugar Ray, Sucrose, Sucre, Sucker, Limpet, Oyster, Pearl, Hester Prynne, Vector Prime, Probability vector, Hector, Berlioz, Composer, Lyricist, Physicist, Marie Curie, Curium, Curate, Curate's egg, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Chuckie Egg, Bride of Chucky, Bride of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Liver, Liverpool, The Beatles, Haircut, Locks of Love, Hounds of Love, Sea of Love, Ship of Fools, Raft of the Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Stop motion animation, Gumby, Chicle, Chewing gum, Bubble, Eden Project, Garden of Eden, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Livin' La Vida Loca, overplayed, No Kidding!, Club, suit, Tie, Draw, Paint, Color, Crimson, Crimson Tide, The Hunt for Red October, Submarine, Yellow Submarine, The Beatles, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, South Bank Centre, South Bank Show, South Park, Chewbacca Defense

Word count 400/400 as of word: Chewbacca Defense. (Closed)

[edit] Branch: "Mirror" (closed)

Mirror, Snow White, Blizzard, Dreamcatcher, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton, New Hampshire, Old Hampshire, Hampshire County Cricket Club, Cricket, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Buddy film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Destiny's Child, Beyoncé, Prince William of Wales, Free Willy, Whale, Whaling, Japan, Nagoya, Nagano, Nagaina, Nagini, Naga, Naja, Serpent, Apple, IPod, Music, Score, The Score, Martin Scorsese, Patrick Swayze, Patrick Stewart, Extras, Leftovers, Oliver Twist, Twist ending, The Usual Suspects, Keyser Söze, Kaiser Wilhelm, Prussia, Russia, Rush, Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Muppet Show, Kermit the frog, Green, Brown, Brownstone, Mr. Brownstone, Mr. Tambourine Man, Bob Dylan, Bob Dole, The Dole, Pineapple, Agadoo, Didgeridoo, Australia, New Zealand, Kiwi, All Blacks, Springboks, Springbok Antelope, Anteater, Aardvark, Africa, Afrika Korps, Germany, Federal Republic, General public, General Patton, Tank, Panzer, Pansy, Flower, Power

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

[edit] Branch²: "Pansy" (Closed)

Pansy, Petunia Dursley, Petunia (Happy Tree Friends), Petunia, Daisy, Daisy Chainsaw, Daisy Cutter, Underarm bowling, Bowling, Spin bowling, Topspin, Spin Boldak, Spin City, SimCity, Simplicity, Felicity, Happiness, Happy, Misery, Depression, Desperation, Desperate Housewives, T.O., K.O., O.K., Fine, D.C. al Fine, Coda, Kodak, Kodiak Bear, Ursa Major, The Great Bear, The Great Depression, The Great Pretender, The Contender, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bleeding Gums Murphy, Oral hygiene, Floss, Oral-B, Plan B, Run, Chicken Run, Mel Gibson, Anti-Semitism, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Assimilation, High School, University, Warwick, Dionne Warwick, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Mental Illness, License to Ill, Beastie Boys, Mods, The Mod Squad, Funky Squad, Police Squad!, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The Final Solution, Warsaw Ghetto, Saw, Sore, Sky High, Superhero, Justice, Law, Order, Law and Order, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Toy Story, Pixar, Disney, Warner Bros., Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies

Word count 80/80 as of word: Merrie Melodies (branch² closed).

[edit] Branch of Branch²: "The Final Solution" (closed)

The Final solution, Finale, Final examination, SAT, Anxiety, Panic, Mars, War, GWAR, Balsac the Jaws of Death, Jaws of life, Wintersleep, Nova Scotia, Supernova, Rock Star: Supernova, Champagne Supernova, Look Back in Anger, Don't Look Back in Anger, Britpop, Grunge music, Flannel, The Lumberjack Song, Monty Python, Spamalot, Spam, Phishing, Fishing, Bass, Treble, Midrange, Median, Mean, Nice, Howard Marks, Richard Marx, Torture, Rack, Glacier Express, Polar Express, Polar Beverages, Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester sauce, Lea & Perrins, Lea Thompson, Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox, Vivica A. Fox, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Alfonso Ribeiro, Fozzie Bear, The Fonz, Citroen, Citrus, Citric Acid, Lemon, Lemon Law, Carfax, Ceefax, Beeswax, Earwax

Word count 60/60 as of word: Earwax (branch closed)

[edit] Branch: "Super Mario Kart" (closed)

Super Mario Kart, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Wii, WiFi, 802.11g, 2600, The 4400, Honda S2000, Nimbus 2000, Broomsticks in Harry Potter, Boomstick, Shotgun, Wedding, White Wedding, White Trash Wedding, Trailer park, Kenny McCormick, Killed, Dead, Zombie, Shaun of the Dead, Sheep shearing, Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf, Wile E. Coyote, Riley Country, Manhattan, Screwdriver, Hammer, Sickle, Icicle, Bicycle, Penny-farthing, Little and Large, Bigsmall, CatDog, Zonkey, Zonk (Let's Make a Deal), Donk, Count Duckula, Igor, Freyr, Feuer frei!, Continue, Move Along, The Move, Moving, Standing still, Quicksand, Quicklime, Quicktime, Bullet time, The Matrix, Neo, Neo-Liberal, New Labour, Labrador, Laboratory, Explosion, Implosion, Big Crunch, Big Bang, Big Apple, Apple pie, American Pie, Melting pot, Crock Pot, crackpot, Archaeology, Time Team, Time Cube, Gamecube, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mr. Game and Watch, Stopwatch, Time, Thyme, Rosemary, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, Recipe, Chocolate chip cookies.

Word count 80/80 as of word: Chocolate chip cookies (branch closed).

[edit] Branch: "Robinson Crusoe" (Closed)

Robinson Crusoe, Man Friday, TGI Friday's, TFI Friday, Friday's Child, Child of Our Time, Jesus, Baby Jesus, The Nativity Story, The Passion of the Christ, Donkey, Donkey Kong, King Kong, King Lear, Leicester, Soar, River Soar, River Trent, Battle of Trenton, Battlestar Galactica, The Battle of Serenity Valley, Summer Glau, River Tam, Tammany Hall, Millbank Tower, Petronas Twin Towers, Twin Peaks, Mountain, Magic Mountain, Magic the Gathering, fanboy, Fan Man, Duffman, Damien Duff, Damien Marley, Damien Rice, Anneka Rice, Grain, Wheat, Flour, Dough, Donut, Homer Simpson, Astronaut, Astroturf, Astroturfing, Houston Astros, Houston Rockets, Houston Oilers, Enron, Kenneth Lay, Chips, Silicon Valley, Silicon Glen, Glen Ballard, Bollard, Billiards, Magic 8 Ball, Jennifer 8 Lee, Jennifer Lopez, New York City, York, North York, Yorkshire Pudding, Uncle John, Throne, Lavatory, Flush, Royal flush, Queen of Hearts, Spade, Shovel, Ditch, Being John Malkovitch, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Oklahoma, Washington, Tyne and Wear, Fork

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

[edit] Branch: "Big Ben"(Closed)

Big Ben, Gentle Ben, The Simpsons, The Itchy and Scratchy Show, Tom and Jerry, Tex Avery, Texas, Taxes, Rice pudding, Rice cakes, Diet, Sugar Busters, Sugar Puffs, Powerpuff Girls, Mojo Jojo, Smokin' Mojo Filters, Paul Weller, Town Called Malice, A Town Called Eureka, Eureka, Kansas, What's the Matter with Kansas?, Kansas, The Wizard of Oz, Scarecrow, The Crow, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, My Life as a Ten Year-Old Boy, Ben 10, Jennifer 8, Blakes 7, Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther, Movie, Talkie, Walkie-talkie, Mobile phone, Book mobile, Batmobile, Jingle Bells, Sound, The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins, popover, poptart, Toaster, coming out of the closet, Boggart, Room 101, Paul Merton, Have I Got News For You, The Buzz, Beehive, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Synesthesia, Neurology, Paul Churchland, Patricia Churchland, Patricia Arquette, True Romance, True Lies, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Honesty, Chastity, Bono, Pro bono, Bones, The Killers, Murder, Blackrock, Play, Moby, Dick, Jane, Tarzan, Jungle, Congo, Africa, Asia

Word count 80/80 as of word: Asia (branch closed)

[edit] Branch: "Insect"(closed)

Insect, Bee, Don't Worry, Bee Happy, Bobby McFerrin, Bobby McDonald, Ronald McDonald, Hamburglar, hamburger, wimpy, Hefty, Large, Grand, Piano, Violin, Stradivarius, Antonio Stradivari, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, Lamplighter, Florence Nightingale, Florence, Venice, The Merchant of Venice, Antonio, Antony, Julius Caeser, Asterix, Apteryx, Archaeopteryx, Bird, Brain, Pinky, Finger, Finger Lakes, Burned-over district, Scorched earth, Vietnam War, Seymour Skinner, Blur, Censorship, Penis Landscape, Dick, jeans, Denim, Clothing, Tie-dye, Feral, Feral child, Kasper Hauser, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Rentaghost, Ghost, Patrick Swayze, She's Like the Wind, You're Like The Breeze, Music, Dance, Ballet, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, Russia, Soviet Union, Yakov Smirnoff, Smirnoff, Vodka, Cossack, Don, Don Quixote, El Coyote, Wile E. Coyote, Wylye, palindrome, A man, a plan, a canal: Panama, Panamax, Panadol, Headache, Sleep, Dream, Lucid dreaming, REM

Word count 80/80 as of word: REM (branch closed)

[edit] Branch: "Guinness" (closed)

Guinness, Guinness World Records, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter, Ross Geller, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Maybelline, "Maybellene", Tell Laura I Love Her, Luke and Laura, Luke Skywalker, Star Wars, Strategic Defense Initiative, Cold War, United States of America, Canada, Vancouver, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Tim Rice, Elton John, Elton Motello, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Impersonator, Benedict Arnold, treason, Lord Haw Haw, pseudonym, Mark Twain, Knot (speed), Knot, Slip, Dress, Uniform, Uniformity principle, Uncertainty principle, Heisenberg, Munich, 1972 Summer Olympics, Lake Placid, New York, city, Wells, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Citizen Cohn, con man, User:ConMan, Animania, Animalia, Kingdom (biology), Kingdom Hospital, Kingdom Hearts, Mickey Mouse, Michael Eisner, Mount Kisco, New York, Kensico Reservoir, Quabbin Reservoir, Prescott, Massachusetts, Massachusetts (Bee Gees song), Massachusetts (Arlo Guthrie song), Alice's Restaurant, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Art house, Ithaca, Kefalonia, California, Hotel, Hooker, T.J. Hooker, William Shatner, Fear of Pop, Pop Will Eat Itself, Can't sleep, clown will eat me, User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me, Night terror, Night owl.

Word count 80/80 as of word: Night owl (branch closed)

[edit] Branch: "Vincent Van Gogh" (closed)

Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Starry Night, dark and stormy night, Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Meriam-Webster, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Dramatica, LiveJournal, Livewire, Mountain Dew, Mountain, White Mountains, Blue Mountains, Brokeback Mountain, Gay pride, Double-wide, Trailer park, trailer trash, Anna Nicole Smith, Adam Smith, University of Glasgow, University of Wales, Swansea, Swansea, Massachusetts, Swan song, Schwanengesang, Schwarzenegger, Mediocrity, Average, Mean, Blue Meanie, Yellow Submarine, Octopus's Garden, Octopussy, Pussy Galore, Honor Blackman, The Avengers, Uma Thurman, Kill Bill, Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, Unexpected Spanish Inquisition, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Circus Circus, Cirque du Soleil, Louis XIV, Pope John XIV, King Friday XIII, Joe Friday, Mathnet, Dragnet, Drift net, Drifting, Driftwood, Dogwood, Stick, Manual transmission, Bicycle, Handlebars, Mustache, Nietzsche, Bruces' Philosophers Song, Bruce Peninsula, Bob, Microsoft Bob, Bob the Builder, Neil Morrissey, Van Morrison, Astral Weeks, 9½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke, Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney, Cryonics, Futurama, The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak, Barney Gumble, Bryant Gumbel, Gumball machine, Godzilla, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferrari 365

Word count 80/80 as of word: Ferrari 365 (branch closed)

[edit] Branch²: "Mustache" (closed)

Mustache, Mamma Mia, ABBA, Sweden, Norway, Null points, Null set, Set Enterprises, Satanism, Thatcherism, Bushism, Misunderestimate, Miserable Failure, Damp squib, Giant squid, Colossal Squid, Sperm Whale, The Squid and the Whale, Moby Dick, Leviathan, Loch Ness monster, Mythology, Sun god, Ra, Lion, Kimba, Simba, Symbiosis, Teamwork, Co-operation, Co-operative, Co-op City, The Bronx, Rumble in the Bronx, Bronx River Parkway, New York City, New York City Boy, Uptown Girl, Billy Joel, Piano Man, Elton John, Scissor Sisters, Scissorfight, New Hampshire, Yorkshire pudding, Yorkshire Dales, Dale Carnegie, Carnegie-Mellon University, Blind Melon, Watermelon, Kalahari Desert, Calamari, Takoyaki, Sushi, Unagi, Katamari Damacy, Willing suspension of disbelief, Fiction, Fiction Records, Snow Patrol, The Reindeer Section, Reindeer Games, Patriot Games, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, American Indian, Maize, Maze, Labyrinth, Jim Henson, Muppets Tonight, Tonight Tonight, Billy Corgan, Corgi, Georgie Porgie, Nursery rhyme, Mother Goose, Ma Mère l'Oye, Mamma Mia, repeat.

Word count 80/80 as of word: repeat. (branch² closed).

[edit] Other Games

[edit] Archive of old games

[edit] Normal

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

• Game #1 - History ("Free" → "Checkers")

Lasted until we had about 400 words on the list, and a bunch of repeated ones.

• Game #2 - History ("eggnog" → "Crescent")

Our first attempt at word disassociation. Creativity was somewhat lower.

• Game #3 - History ("Pending" → "Sumba")

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.

• Game #10 ("Pennsylvania" → "Alphabet soup")

The tenth word association game, with 400 words and four branches.

• Game #11 - History ("Bioprocessor" → "mercy")

The eleventh word association game, with 400 words and four branches.

• Game #12 ("Vienna" → "Daffy Duck")

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."

[edit] 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...

• Ultra game #11 (Ickford → Cocoa beans)

From a small English village to tropical produce in 105 easy steps!

• Ultra game #12 (Petri net → Entertainment)

There's a lot of space in this game!

• Ultra game #13 (Kidney (Zang) → The Simpsons)

No bad luck, just traditional Chinese medicine to American popular culture via Latin.

• Ultra game #14 (Herðubreið → Goodbye!)

quite humorous choice for the last word (a disguised duplication!).

• Ultra game #15 (Still Alive... And Well? → Racial purity)

Sex, violence and Walt Disney!

• Ultra game #16 (Levitated Dipole Experiment → Cuban Missile Crisis)

Railways featured heavily in this game.

[edit] 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

• Ultra Fixed #10 ("Duval Street" → "Memorex")

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!

• Ultra Fixed #12 ("Gypogyna" → "Tournament"

Don't know what Gypogyna means? Neither do most people, but find out here how it links to tournament!

• Ultra Fixed #13 ("Lawrence Grossberg" → "Francis Bacon")

This game included a lot of fattening food, but also a famine!

[edit] 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!

[edit] 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" 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.

• Radial Ultra Cross #5 ("Indianapolis" → "Self (philosophy)", "King", "Aroma" and "Finding Nemo")

The start letters were "CIVITAS" across, and "QUEEN ELIZABETH 2" down.

• Radial Ultra Cross #6 ("Alphabet" → "Veal", "Woman", "Yesteryear" and "X-Men")

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!

[edit] Reverse Radial Ultra

• 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

• 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

• Reverse Radial Ultra #4 ("Eton Wick F.C"., "Lenox, Iowa", "9th Regiment of Foot" and "Nibiru" → H5N1")
• Reverse Radial Ultra #5 ("Adult oriented pop music", "CHiPs", "Fushigi no dungeon" and "Windows Shell" → "GN'R")

War and heavy metal

• Reverse Radial Ultra #6 ("Aydilge", "Large Emerald", "Kiarov" and "Simón Bolívar" → "Discovery Channel")

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

[edit] Psychadelic

(Psychadelic games feature unusual ultra ideas. Games 1 to 6 were started by Xhin. Thryduulf has started the games from number 7 onwards)

• Psychadelic #1: Ten Islands

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.

• Psychadelic #3: Five Kingdoms

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.

• Psychadelic #5: Elemental Oscillation

In this flavor, you had to-- Well, why don't you read the instructions for yourself?

• Psychadelic #6: Alignment

Your run of the mill radial word association, with one exception...

• Psychadelic #7: 10 more islands

A remake of game #1, this time the words were the names of islands and the word "island" was prohibited.

• Psychadelic #8: Diamond association

A development on the 10 islands idea, except the starting words were placed in a diamond pattern around the board.

[edit] 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.

• 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.

• Ultra disassociative vortex #1

Associate with a spiral 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.

• Skein Association #1

WA with a purpose?!

• Skein Association #2

Word association with a goal?!

• Sliding doors #1 ("Sliding Doors" → "Dermatology" and "Province of Georgia")

Based on the film Sliding Doors, this was two games of ultra fixed in one. This game inspired the other Sliding Doors associations.

• Sliding doors #2 ("Celtic literature" → "Laser eye surgery" and "Sticky")

Two games of ultra association in one

• Sliding doors #3 ("Parallel universe" → "GDR" and "PDA")

One game featured the Soviet Union heavily, while Star Trek and insects featured in the other.

[edit] Players

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[edit] Active players

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[edit] Casually Observing Players

11kowrom, ANNA REXIA, Corey520, knoodelhed, PryItOpen, Kodukadvakch (KOE-due-KODD-vahk), Jonathan Weiss, Nil Einne, Yayasirrah, FrankCostanza, Dewar912, Milk77, Aquarius Rising, Xiagu, PrinceDog, Calibration, Ilyanep, mahlered, HappyCamper, Sceptre ^(Talk), ArkansasTraveler, gobeirne, Daniel, Ian Manka, Ghelae, Anthon, Majora4, Sotakeit, talktothehand07, Sonicrazy, Midgetmogget, Keeperoftheseal, Bubzie29!, Mproud Jordan Elder (talk) 21:19, Tuesday December 12, 2006 (UTC), MarinBeth, Qwertyuiop, User:Think Fast, He Who Is, Pharaoh Hound, BJK, Algebra, GregE, Gray Porpoise, User:Jeffklib, Keakealani, → JARED ^(t) , —Editor at Large, Robert, Edlin2, -D•a•r•k•n•e•s•s•L•o•r•d•i•a•n•••C•••

Total: 50

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