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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 #12560 on: February 24, 2017, 10:19:34 AM »
Spot
Good guess, but not what I was thinking.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12561 on: February 24, 2017, 11:04:28 AM »
Cross

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12562 on: February 24, 2017, 11:24:22 AM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12563 on: February 24, 2017, 11:33:35 AM »
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12564 on: February 24, 2017, 11:38:09 AM »
No.

Hint:  genetics
chromosomes? recessive?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12565 on: February 24, 2017, 11:41:53 AM »
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12566 on: February 24, 2017, 11:42:40 AM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12567 on: February 24, 2017, 11:48:16 AM »
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12568 on: February 24, 2017, 01:31:08 PM »
Mother?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12569 on: February 24, 2017, 01:45:20 PM »
Mother?
No.

Hint:  "recessive" was closest.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12570 on: February 24, 2017, 01:48:06 PM »
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12571 on: February 24, 2017, 01:50:26 PM »
Is the idiom "eyefeast" or "feast for the eyes"?
Probably feast for the eyes
That.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12572 on: February 24, 2017, 02:05:22 PM »
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No.

Let me clarify my hint:  eyes... X... recessive.  What links them all?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12573 on: February 24, 2017, 02:25:15 PM »
Genes?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12574 on: February 24, 2017, 02:25:53 PM »
DNA
Don't wait for the perfect moment; take the moment and make it perfect.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12575 on: February 24, 2017, 03:07:36 PM »
Genes?
DNA
No.  No.

Let me try to be clearer.  Involves the eyes, related to X, IS recessive.  I'm trying not to give it away like I did last time.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12576 on: February 24, 2017, 03:36:27 PM »
No.  No.

Let me try to be clearer.  Involves the eyes, related to X, IS recessive.  I'm trying not to give it away like I did last time.
blue eyes?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12577 on: February 24, 2017, 03:56:02 PM »
blue eyes?
No.

Has to also be related to X...

Hint:  it's a type of <another word for entropy>
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12578 on: February 25, 2017, 10:10:31 PM »
mutation?

random?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #12579 on: February 25, 2017, 10:18:26 PM »
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