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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 #4260 on: May 20, 2014, 03:55:14 PM »
link=eggs?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4261 on: May 20, 2014, 03:55:28 PM »
Eggs?

I take it back.

Morning/mourning
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4262 on: May 20, 2014, 03:55:57 PM »
Morning/mourning
That's a good one

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4263 on: May 20, 2014, 03:56:31 PM »

I take it back.

Morning/mourning
yup .. Too easy

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4264 on: May 20, 2014, 03:59:43 PM »
That's a good one

Heard Edvard Grieg's Mourning and Morning? Both beautiful compositions.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4265 on: May 20, 2014, 04:03:23 PM »
Morning
Tag
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4266 on: May 20, 2014, 04:07:20 PM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4267 on: May 20, 2014, 04:08:15 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 #4268 on: May 20, 2014, 04:21:32 PM »
Not that I care but isn't it supposed to be breakfast and tag?

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4269 on: May 20, 2014, 04:26:30 PM »
Not that I care but isn't it supposed to be breakfast and tag?

Yeah... hmmm

Still sort of works as breakfast and tag... but not as good.

So who's the game show host? What are the rules?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4270 on: May 20, 2014, 04:28:11 PM »
word 1=Morning
word 2=Tag
FTFY (just to have some form of standardization in a group of out-of-the-box thinkers  :) )


Not that I care but isn't it supposed to be breakfast and tag?
Yes. 

Yeah... hmmm

Still sort of works as breakfast and tag... but not as good.

So who's the game show host? What are the rules?

You can refer to the wiki.
Now that @wayfe understands shall we just continue with the riddle the way it is this time?
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4271 on: May 20, 2014, 04:33:54 PM »
I say yes

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4272 on: May 20, 2014, 04:36:15 PM »
I say yes
So it is.   


Morning and tag.




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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4273 on: May 20, 2014, 04:42:06 PM »

Yeah... hmmm

Still sort of works as breakfast and tag... but not as good.

So who's the game show host? What are the rules?
FTFY (just to have some form of standardization in a group of out-of-the-box thinkers  :) )

 

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4274 on: May 20, 2014, 08:34:27 PM »
Day? (Tag in German)
"להסתובב זה לא אומר להיות חופשי"

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4275 on: May 20, 2014, 10:28:34 PM »
I am going with wikipedia here! It's about the etymology:
Phone = sound
Graph = appearance
nym = name (sound + appearance)

Homophone means same sound. If it sounds the same and looks different, it is a homophone (air/heir).
Homograph means appearance. If it looks the same but sounds different it is a homograph (tie a bow, take a bow).
Homonym is a word that is both a homophone AND a homograph (will).
Sorry for bringing this up again, but I only found the time to look it up now. I was really curious about this, since your explanation makes a lot of sense, but I've known for a while that homonym and homophone are interchangeable in this sense. I looked it up in Webster's online, and they also had both homophone and homograph as definitions for homonym. Then I noticed this on the Wikipedia page:
In non-technical contexts, the term "homonym" may be used (somewhat confusingly) to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones.
So the question remains if "Missing Links" is a technical or non-technical context... :)
I guess it is one of those mistakes which were repeated so many times until they made their way into the official language, although some might be more hesitant than others to accept them.
Thanks for clarifying the origins of these words, I really appreciated it.

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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4276 on: May 21, 2014, 12:32:39 AM »
As long as we have had this extensive discussion on 'homowords' (sic) and we may regard ourselves as the resident 'experts' in word play, I vote that we consider ourselves of technical rank and use the words as follows:


homo+graph=same+written= written the same, different meanings
homo+phone=same+sound=  sounds the same, different spelling
homo+nym=same name =       sounds the same, different meaning (spelling same or different);
                                               therefore a homograph or a homophone can also be a homonym


 CMIIW, otherwise I will add these official game definitions to the wiki



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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4277 on: May 21, 2014, 12:41:40 AM »
Correct. Homographs and homophones (and heteronyms... just to throw everything into the mix!) are homonyms.
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4278 on: May 21, 2014, 12:43:58 AM »
Great! Now that the extremely important definitions have been clarified, back to the riddle?
Or shall we change the thread title? :)
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Re: Forum Games: Missing Link
« Reply #4279 on: May 21, 2014, 12:55:59 AM »
Yours was the last guess (and a good one I might add)... but wayfe is offline