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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 #13980 on: January 29, 2023, 10:33:08 AM »
Word1: Leaves
Word2: Red Chief

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13981 on: January 29, 2023, 12:26:19 PM »
Word1: Leaves
Word2: Red Chief
hockey

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13982 on: January 29, 2023, 12:46:04 PM »
Word1: Leaves
Word2: Red Chief
Red Vines (licorice)
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13983 on: January 29, 2023, 01:06:17 PM »
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no
Red Vines (licorice)
no

Hint: It could be that the "leaves" association to this thing is not so well known, but the "Red Chief" connection is pretty famous.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13985 on: January 29, 2023, 03:59:42 PM »
https://candide.com/GB/plants/fc9589d3ef15d6a222fea3958b1a43f7
My filter blocks the link but the actual link implies that it is not what I had in mind.

Here is hint #2. This has to do with American Literature.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13986 on: January 29, 2023, 04:46:03 PM »
Hint #3, which is probably easy enough to give it away:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the-last-leaf.pdf

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13987 on: January 29, 2023, 05:46:55 PM »
Hint #3, which is probably easy enough to give it away:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the-last-leaf.pdf
Hint #4, which brings the challenge down to First Grade level...

https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-ransom-of-red-chief

(Yes, I know I'm impatient, but I hate having to monitor this thread in case someone comes up with the answer...)

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13988 on: January 29, 2023, 05:47:55 PM »
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13989 on: January 29, 2023, 06:13:10 PM »

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« Reply #13990 on: January 29, 2023, 06:15:14 PM »
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13991 on: January 29, 2023, 06:18:37 PM »
Ohhhh! Henry
Yes yes yes yes yes!!!!

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« Reply #13992 on: January 29, 2023, 06:37:18 PM »
Word1: Red Chief
Word2: Guardians
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13993 on: January 29, 2023, 07:55:17 PM »
Word1: Red Chief
Word2: Guardians
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13995 on: January 29, 2023, 08:45:32 PM »
Word 1: Guardians
Word 2: Los Angeles

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« Reply #13996 on: January 29, 2023, 08:52:58 PM »
Word 1: Guardians
Word 2: Los Angeles
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13998 on: January 30, 2023, 12:09:46 AM »
Word 1: Los Angeles
Word 2: Beef

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #13999 on: January 30, 2023, 07:04:01 AM »
Word 1: Los Angeles
Word 2: Beef
Kobe? Universal?
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