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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 #2680 on: April 03, 2014, 04:18:30 PM »
VERY close

think ___-band
headband  or sweatband
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2681 on: April 03, 2014, 04:19:56 PM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2682 on: April 03, 2014, 04:24:25 PM »
You got it!
awesome - Multitasking at its best... (We both have 10 things going on right now -- I finished 4, so 6 things remaining...)

OK - New pair: I really have you use your word, "sweat"?!

word 1 = sweat
word 2 = (reach a) goal
  Level - Hard

(Optional Level Easy:
   word 1 = sweat; word 2 = necklace)
 
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2683 on: April 03, 2014, 04:29:38 PM »
awesome - Multitasking at its best... (We both have 10 things going on right now -- I finished 4, so 6 things remaining...)

OK - New pair: I really have you use your word, "sweat"?!

word 1 = sweat
word 2 = (reach a) goal
  Level - Hard

(Optional Level Easy:
   word 1 = sweat; word 2 = necklace)
Can we a level medium as well?
If you don't care why would you comment?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2684 on: April 03, 2014, 04:31:00 PM »
awesome - Multitasking at its best... (We both have 10 things going on right now -- I finished 4, so 6 things remaining...)

OK - New pair: I really have you use your word, "sweat"?!

word 1 = sweat
word 2 = (reach a) goal
  Level - Hard

(Optional Level Easy:
   word 1 = sweat; word 2 = necklace)
Well I'm STILL fighting with the same printer as I was then ;)

link: no?
as in, "no sweat", vs "there's no way I'm gonna reach that goal"
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2685 on: April 03, 2014, 04:31:13 PM »
Can we a level medium as well?
Are you serious?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2686 on: April 03, 2014, 04:39:54 PM »
Well I'm STILL fighting with the same printer as I was then ;)

link: no?
as in, "no sweat", vs "there's no way I'm gonna reach that goal"
As in that looked too hard - even if obvious to me - so I made an easy one...
My color laser (a good HP) printer has been printing colored streaks for a while and my inkjet/scanner/copier has been on paper jam for a month.
wondering if it's bec I bought Office Depot ink instead of $200 HP ink..

Anyway: Hard fits into this conversation == PERSISTENCE!! (To fix/work with a broken printer)
      ("No sweat" with persistence, Persistence to each a goal!)

The Easy everyone will need to get. Very easy...
   1) Sweat 
   2) Necklace 
They BOTH have ______________!
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2687 on: April 03, 2014, 04:40:31 PM »
Link easy= beads?
Link hard=get?
ETA: FTR, got that before the hint. I'm m in tapatalk-big delay

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2688 on: April 03, 2014, 04:41:57 PM »
Link easy= beads?
Link hard=get?
Yup!   beads!    It's your turn.  Etech0 and I both have printers to 'fix'.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2689 on: April 03, 2014, 04:42:39 PM »
Yup!   beads!    It's your turn.  Etech0 and I both have printers to 'fix'.
:'(
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2690 on: April 03, 2014, 04:45:36 PM »
:'(
ha.... I'm looking on my Consumer Reports account to see the ratings for a new printer. They had this Vine: https://vine.co/v/hzdJEjhpPbJ
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2691 on: April 03, 2014, 04:48:03 PM »
aspire?

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« Reply #2692 on: April 03, 2014, 04:48:14 PM »
ha.... I'm looking on my Consumer Reports account to see the ratings for a new printer. They had this Vine: https://vine.co/v/hzdJEjhpPbJ
Well I'm at work ;) and need to have this file printed by 5.
Fun fun fun
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2693 on: April 03, 2014, 04:49:02 PM »
Uh-oh. Going into no reception area.  Up for grabs.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2694 on: April 03, 2014, 04:57:57 PM »
Uh-oh. Going into no reception area.  Up for grabs.
1- necklace
2- drugs

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2695 on: April 03, 2014, 04:59:03 PM »
1- necklace
2- drugs
choke? suffocate?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2696 on: April 03, 2014, 04:59:25 PM »
allergy?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2697 on: April 03, 2014, 05:00:26 PM »
medical?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2698 on: April 03, 2014, 05:01:35 PM »
Nope.  Think of a specific drug.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #2699 on: April 03, 2014, 05:03:19 PM »
Nope.  Think of a specific drug.
lace?
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