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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 #1380 on: March 14, 2014, 12:35:27 AM »
Well does anybody want to venture a guess?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1381 on: March 14, 2014, 12:39:17 AM »
link: cable?
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1382 on: March 14, 2014, 12:41:35 AM »
link=climb?  climbing?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1383 on: March 14, 2014, 12:46:16 AM »

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1384 on: March 14, 2014, 12:47:21 AM »
oy!
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1385 on: March 14, 2014, 12:48:37 AM »
Hint?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1386 on: March 14, 2014, 12:48:52 AM »
link = capped

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1387 on: March 14, 2014, 12:50:54 AM »
You know it starts with a C. It's 2 words. (Or maybe a conjunction )

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1388 on: March 14, 2014, 12:53:01 AM »
You know it starts with a C. It's 2 words. (Or maybe a conjunction )
Did you mean a contraction? like can not=can't

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1389 on: March 14, 2014, 01:02:22 AM »
Did you mean a contraction? like can not=can't
Maybe, not sure if it's exactly a contraction, there's no apostrophe.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1390 on: March 14, 2014, 01:13:38 AM »
I'll give one more hint before I go to sleep. Almost every chapter of the hardy boys books would end with one of these.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1391 on: March 14, 2014, 01:25:04 AM »
Maybe a supereasy hint so you can go to sleep?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1392 on: March 14, 2014, 01:31:29 AM »
link=cliffhanger

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1393 on: March 14, 2014, 01:33:24 AM »
link=cliffhanger
YES. That's GOT to be it!

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1394 on: March 14, 2014, 01:38:43 AM »
YES. That's GOT to be it!
Should I go ahead or are we waiting for confirmation from sport?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1395 on: March 14, 2014, 01:39:57 AM »
Go ahead!

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1396 on: March 14, 2014, 01:41:14 AM »
Should be super easy
Word 1: Suspense
Word 2: Graph

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1397 on: March 14, 2014, 01:46:36 AM »

Should be super easy
Word 1: Suspense
Word 2: Graph
Link=cage?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1398 on: March 14, 2014, 01:47:01 AM »

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #1399 on: March 14, 2014, 02:01:03 AM »
Escalates?