Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Word Association

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The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the community of Wikipedians, both young and old editors, with things to make them stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia. Below, you can find a fun and simple game to play.

Please, if you have ideas for activities or competitions, do not hesitate to post them to the discussion page or join the Department of Fun. And above all, enjoy yourself!

Introduction

This is a fun and simple game. It was originally a Sandbox subpage and is part of the Department of Fun nowadays — feel free to join in! Why not? It's a good place to practice making links to articles and find interesting pages to edit on Wikipedia. We also welcome more players to join! You can help promote by adding the userbox below. At the bottom of the page is a template with links to other Word Association variations.

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This user wants you to play Wikipedia Department of Fun's Word Association.

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How to play

Simply, the game involves adding a single word to the list that is related to the previous one. Edit the main game or branch section, add a word, enclose it in brackets, update the word count, and save the page. Also, try to avoid miscounting if possible - make sure there are 10 words in at each 10th word!

An example

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, house, boat, ...

Repeated words

Avoid repeating words, and keep the links tasteful! Please use only blue links when associating. Piped links are acceptable in certain circumstances, such as when a word may have many ambiguities, like [[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 "The Perfect Storm (book)", and "Latin" by "Classical language".

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

Rules

Players can only play one associated word at a time. If the current word is chair, the next player can only add musical chairs, not musical chairs and party games as well.

In game, as usual, it is a must to update the word count each time you add a word. The official limit for the main game is 555 words. Please note that this word limit for this game must not be raised or lowered.

Every 100th word may be made into a new branch. However, there cannot be any sub-branches and therefore the total number of branches possible in this game are 5. Branches may contain up to 100 words maximum and 35 minimum.

Please also add  every ten words to show it is the next tenth word e.g. ,  etc.

For Game #33, in which the starting word was Hook sword and the ending word was Tangent bundle, with branches John Laroquette (went to Knobbed hornbill), Santa Claus (went to Cuckoo clock), Anti-Monopoly (went to Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩), Missouri State Bears (went to Linda Lavin), and Löwenmensch figurine (went to Cape (geography)), see this link.

This is Game #34. The starting word, Hackelia sharsmithii, was selected by Special:Random.

Main game

#34: "Hackelia sharsmithii" (main branch)

Main branch:

Hackelia sharsmithii, Inflorescence, Flower, Bee, Bee Gees, "Stayin' Alive", CPR, Club Penguin Rewritten, Penguin, Pingu, 3-2-1 Penguins!, Science fiction, Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, Gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa, Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, Genes, Nucleotide, DNA (Little Mix album), Plasmid, Plasma, Liquid, Solid, Solid South, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic-Republican Party, James Monroe, James Madison, Constitution of the United States, Lochner era, New Deal, Deal or No Deal (American game show), Deal or No Deal, The Price Is Right, Bob Barker, Springfield, Missouri, Humid subtropical climate, Temperate climate, The Well-Tempered Clavier, J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Getreidegasse, Salzburg, Salzgitter,

Word count is 45/555 as of word: Salzgitter.

Players

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

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