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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 #6520 on: July 24, 2014, 04:39:12 PM »
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me..."
What dues that have to do with slur?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6521 on: July 24, 2014, 05:25:53 PM »
I'm totally lost

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6522 on: July 24, 2014, 05:27:53 PM »
What dues that have to do with slur?
A slur is an insult.
Being called a name is insulting.


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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6523 on: July 24, 2014, 05:29:45 PM »
@srap
Time to update the wiki with a rule for what happens when the players give up!

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6524 on: July 24, 2014, 05:31:08 PM »
@srap
Time to update the wiki with a rule for what happens when the players give up!
+1
what's the consequence?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6525 on: July 24, 2014, 05:40:16 PM »
@srap
Time to update the wiki with a rule for what happens when the players give up!
Done.  Updated rule 5.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6526 on: July 24, 2014, 05:54:04 PM »
1. Rock
2. Slur
Nope, the link is a 2 line nursery rhyme
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me..."

Rule 1:  A one or two word link (@wayfe...what happened?
:o ??? :) )
Rule 6:  Any good guess that is seconded goes:  @Super Speed gave one that @wayfe liked. 
             If he's not interested, up for grabs.

word 1= slur
word 2 = ?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6527 on: July 24, 2014, 06:18:08 PM »

+1
what's the consequence?
Stoning.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6528 on: July 24, 2014, 06:21:01 PM »

Rule 1:  A one or two word link (@wayfe...what happened?
:o ??? :) )

I don't think a longer link is harder to figure out than a short one- and if it works it works...
It's a pretty common nursery rhyme, I think most people know it.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6529 on: July 24, 2014, 06:21:27 PM »
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers which can't be questioned."
— Richard Feynman

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6530 on: July 24, 2014, 06:27:10 PM »

yikes!
Would you rather slinging slurs?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6531 on: July 24, 2014, 06:28:14 PM »
Would you rather slinging slurs?

Sure, give it your best shot
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6532 on: July 24, 2014, 06:29:17 PM »
yikes!
:D .  So your link was "Sticks and stones...".
Before either all of us or you are stoned, maybe you want to give the next word 2?
Or anyone, for that matter! 

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6533 on: July 24, 2014, 06:30:09 PM »

Sure, give it your best shot
wait a second, I thought we were discussing the consequence for giving up not for making a game that causes others to give up.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6534 on: July 24, 2014, 06:31:03 PM »
wait a second, I thought we were discussing the consequence for giving up not for making a game that causes others to give up.

ok, phew!
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6535 on: July 24, 2014, 06:31:37 PM »
Here's another shot:

1. Slur
2. 711
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6536 on: July 24, 2014, 06:32:57 PM »
Here's another shot:

1. Slur
2. 711
;D

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6537 on: July 24, 2014, 06:34:07 PM »
;D

Easy enough?

Just trying to avoid a public stoning, y'know...
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6538 on: July 24, 2014, 06:35:06 PM »
Easy enough?

Just trying to avoid a public stoning, y'know...
;D ;D  Good.  Back to good ole times.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #6539 on: July 24, 2014, 06:35:43 PM »
slurpee- free today!