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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 #840 on: March 10, 2014, 01:25:50 PM »
woods? like woodwind?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #841 on: March 10, 2014, 01:26:47 PM »
woods? like woodwind?

lol I was thinking string instruments... string rhymes with spring, best time for vacation :)
but it seems farfetched

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #842 on: March 10, 2014, 01:27:58 PM »
how many links is that? we're getting more and more farfetched over here...

how about triangle (the instrument / bermuda triangle)?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #843 on: March 10, 2014, 01:31:15 PM »
No time to play.  I'm enjoying watching you guys.  I wonder how many other lurkers, 'Missing' posters, there are.....

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #844 on: March 10, 2014, 01:31:35 PM »
:)
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #845 on: March 10, 2014, 01:32:23 PM »

how many links is that? we're getting more and more farfetched over here...

how about triangle (the instrument / bermuda triangle)?
yes you got it

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #846 on: March 10, 2014, 01:34:22 PM »
yes you got it
Who woulda thunk?

OK, word1: musical instrument
word2: fish
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #847 on: March 10, 2014, 01:41:30 PM »
link-trumpet?  (soul=sole)

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #848 on: March 10, 2014, 01:41:53 PM »
link-trumpet?  (soul=sole)
nice, but try again...
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #849 on: March 10, 2014, 01:43:45 PM »
trombone?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #850 on: March 10, 2014, 01:45:00 PM »
Link= bass

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« Reply #851 on: March 10, 2014, 01:45:31 PM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #852 on: March 10, 2014, 01:49:08 PM »
Good one!

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #853 on: March 10, 2014, 01:51:20 PM »
Word #1 fish
Word #2 mafia's nemesis 

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #854 on: March 10, 2014, 01:59:40 PM »
school?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #855 on: March 10, 2014, 02:05:23 PM »
thoughts= reporter, recorder, informer  but none of these are fish.  No links

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #856 on: March 10, 2014, 02:20:07 PM »
Can we get a hint? Or do the rules not allow? :P

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #857 on: March 10, 2014, 02:20:46 PM »
 :P :P :)

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #858 on: March 10, 2014, 02:21:00 PM »
We've had 15min of inactivity, so...
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #859 on: March 10, 2014, 02:26:29 PM »
I guess sport is still being distracted by his meetings