Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Word Association/Ultra Game

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 to create red links (like this one).

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: 'Douglas Watt'

In this game, the initial word was chosen by clicking the "Random article" link.

Douglas Watt	Heriot-Watt University

Grid-Size: 7×15 (do not expand)