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NEW GAME - MISSING LINK - A Creative Thinking Game of Associations

(NOTE: This thread is for THIS game ONLY.  All other games can be played here: http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=34043.0)

Rules:
1.  You need to figure out the ONE or TWO word Missing Link which connects two separate game words, word1--> Missing Link--> word2.

2.  The Missing Link must be somehow associated to word1 AND to word2.  (see examples below)

3.  Any member can guess the Missing Link by posting this:  link="Missing Link guess"?

4.  The Poster of the correct Missing Link gets to post the new word2 in the following format:
  • word1= "old word2"
  • word2= "OP's new word"
5.  The Poster of word2 is encouraged to give hints if members have difficulty finding the Missing Link (until it is so easy that a member gets it).

6.  In case the current OP of the riddle is offline or not responding, any logical Missing Link guess that is posted and then seconded
     by another member is good enough to win that riddle.  The OP member who thought of the link can CMIIW.  This way we don't have to wait.

7.  3MR=The 3 Minute Rule:  The member correctly guessing the Missing Link has 3 minutes to post word2, otherwise any member may post it in order to keep the game flowing.



This is not just a free flow association game, but rather, each pair of words is its own new, challenging riddle to be solved before continuing.

Example:   If Riddle#1 were "Sunday-->Superbowl-->cereal"   then   Riddle#2 could be "cereal-->spoon-->fork"
       In Riddle#1, if a member correctly guesses the Missing Link for word2 of "cereal", then "cereal" now becomes new word1 in Riddle#2.
       The member then thinks of a Missing Link to a new word2 and posts the new word2.   (The guessed link DOES NOT become word2.) 

Possibilities:
Word1Word2LinkLevel
cereal,fork-you eat cereal with a spoon, which is a utensil just like a fork (easy)
cereal,cow-you eat cereal with milk, which comes from a cow (easy)
cereal,soup-you eat cereal in a bowl, as you do soup (easy)
cereal,lane-you eat cereal in a bowl, and you bowl down a lane (moderate)
cereal,hear-cereal starts with "see", which is one of the 5 senses, as is hear (moderate)
cereal,bounce-cereal ends with "roll", which is an action like bounce (moderate)
cereal,trout-cereal sounds like "sole", which is a fish, like trout (hard)
cereal,celery-cereal is crunchy, just like celery (hard)

Ready?  I propose we start off with easy/moderate until members feel comfortable joining.

NOTE: Players agree to ignore any posts that do not comply with the rules, and instead, to refer those posters to the wiki.
« Last edited by srap on February 10, 2017, 02:55:52 PM »

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12120 on: February 02, 2017, 09:56:36 PM »
canned?
What a great  link (!!), but that is not what I had in mind.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12121 on: February 02, 2017, 10:00:09 PM »
Shrink?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12122 on: February 02, 2017, 10:08:55 PM »
pop?
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12125 on: February 02, 2017, 10:54:28 PM »
Indian?
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12126 on: February 02, 2017, 11:28:13 PM »
Indian?
Sorry.

Don't need to go so deep.
Maybe we need to wait for the late night crew.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12127 on: February 03, 2017, 12:22:23 AM »
Black?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12128 on: February 03, 2017, 12:27:34 AM »
Ear/air?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12129 on: February 03, 2017, 02:23:24 AM »
Black?
Nice, but no.

Ear/air?
Still not, but the right idea of the link being spelled two different ways for word1 and word2! A homonym.


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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12130 on: February 03, 2017, 02:30:53 PM »
The answer is so clear that you will know it when you get it.

word1 = depression
word2 = corn
link= ?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12131 on: February 03, 2017, 02:37:01 PM »
The answer is so clear that you will know it when you get it.
Alcohol? Distillery?
Memories last forever, make them while you can.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12132 on: February 03, 2017, 03:14:45 PM »
Bourbon
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12133 on: February 04, 2017, 11:12:16 PM »
Alcohol? Distillery?
Bourbon
Nice answers that could really work, but no.

My link starts with 's'
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12134 on: February 05, 2017, 12:10:05 AM »
shucks?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12135 on: February 05, 2017, 03:28:41 PM »
stalk/stuck?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12136 on: February 05, 2017, 05:19:03 PM »
stalk/stuck?
Close enough.  How does it relate to depression?  The word is.........      ?"     "/stalk
[hint=1940s depression]

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12137 on: February 05, 2017, 06:03:59 PM »
stock
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12138 on: February 05, 2017, 08:34:04 PM »
The link to depression and corn was stock/stalk.  I thought that was easy and cool. 
So much for that!

whYME/etech0 are up.  You guys decide.

word1 = corn
word2 =    ?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12139 on: February 05, 2017, 08:37:38 PM »
The link to depression and corn was stock/stalk. 
So it was a two word answer?
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