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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.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12140 on: February 05, 2017, 08:44:07 PM »
So it was a two word answer?
A one word homonym: s-t-o-k spelled 'stock' when connected to 'depression' and 'stalk' when connected to 'corn'.

It's the kind that when you guess it, you feel a "geshamk" [time to look that one up in your thread  :) ].[/time]

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12141 on: February 05, 2017, 08:44:34 PM »
So it was a two word answer?
+1 they aren't pronounced the same. Thought of stalk years ago, couldn't connect it to depression tho

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12142 on: February 05, 2017, 08:50:01 PM »
+1 they aren't pronounced the same. Thought of stalk years ago, couldn't connect it to depression tho
Says who?  I pronounce them the same, you don't? Got it.  You must be one of those who "woak" a "doag" on a leash!  :D

So you  pronounced these 'stok' and stoak'?  Whatever.  Next up.
 

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12143 on: February 05, 2017, 08:55:35 PM »
Says who?  I pronounce them the same, you don't? Got it.  You must be one of those who "woak" a "doag" on a leash!  :D

So you  pronounced these 'stok' and stoak'?  Whatever.  Next up.
Didn't mean to be offensive. Just didn't even see the connection, now I do...
FWIW, this one bothered me so much that I googled homographs that start with "S", and didn't see the answer. Now I know why. Lol

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12144 on: February 05, 2017, 08:57:45 PM »


So you  pronounced these 'stok' and stoak'?
Stok and stawk

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12145 on: February 05, 2017, 08:59:30 PM »
stok/stock has nothing to do with stalk. Don't get it.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12146 on: February 05, 2017, 09:03:44 PM »
stok/stock has nothing to do with stalk. Don't get it.
Think Boston accent
Aw= ah

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12147 on: February 05, 2017, 09:03:53 PM »
stok/stock has nothing to do with stalk. Don't get it.
Because we're from Chicago.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12148 on: February 05, 2017, 09:04:15 PM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12149 on: February 05, 2017, 09:05:27 PM »
Didn't mean to be offensive. Just didn't even see the connection, now I do...
FWIW, this one bothered me so much that I googled homographs that start with "S", and didn't see the answer. Now I know why. Lol
Not offended in the least.  Just teasing.  All is good.

Sorry.  Forgot about difference pronunciations.  Funny.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12150 on: February 05, 2017, 09:05:41 PM »
Because we're from Chicago.
Webster must be from Chicago also.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12151 on: February 05, 2017, 09:07:39 PM »
FTFY :)
U taking it? Otherwise I have a great one

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12152 on: February 05, 2017, 09:28:06 PM »
U taking it? Otherwise I have a great one
Go ahead, I don't have any good ideas yet anyways
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12153 on: February 05, 2017, 09:34:05 PM »
1: corn
2: hard

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12154 on: February 05, 2017, 09:35:34 PM »
Webster must be from Chicago also.
Chicago does have the perfect accent, so I can see why Webster would base their dictionary on us
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12155 on: February 05, 2017, 09:41:08 PM »
candy?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
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« Reply #12158 on: February 05, 2017, 10:16:58 PM »
Nope. Think out of the box guys/gals
FTFY  ;)
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12159 on: February 06, 2017, 12:13:15 AM »
candy?
I thought for sure that was it!

Nope. Think out of the box guys
ball?  head? (but it's an ear of corn, not a head of corn...  >:( )
core?