Wikipedia talk:Department of Fun/Word Association

Archive
Note: Archive 1 was apparently deleted. I archived the last page as 2 in case it is restored. Squad51 18:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

WA Navbox and EG variants.
There are now four EG variants, and all of them are listed in "Radial".

The EG Variants, in order of creation, are Expansive Grid, Inversive Grid, Reversive Grid, and Condensive Grid.

Should we separarte EG variants from non-branched radial and ultra variants? James1011R (talk, contribs) 15:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I have a new idea for a Word Association Variant.
Frame Association.

It is played like a regular Ultra game, but it has colored frames.

Inside the frames the words must associate.

Across the frames the words must disassociate.

Right now I'm hosting the 9x9 version at Disassociation Deviants.

See both the 9x9 and 11x11 Frame Association versions at User:James1011R/Word Association. James1011R (talk, contribs) 21:24, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Why was Psychedelic WA discontinued?
When looking at the history of Game #18, I found there used to be Psychedelic WA, with unusual ideas every round.

Why was it removed? James1011R (talk, contribs) 13:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

I've created a new Word Association game!
Come play it here! Thanks! —Preceding undated comment added 04:11, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Where's the Game?
I couldn't find a link to the actual game. Thanks. LM103 (talk) 23:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Click here to get to my game! alexanderao (talk) 23:21, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Yet Another WA Game Idea
You have a diamond shaped 11x11 grid, the cells not part are black.

Played Radial (not reverse-radial) style, you expand from the center into the points.

It is called crystal association.

An Expansive Grid version will be called Liquid Crystal and a Ultra Cross version will be called Adamantine. James1011R (talk, contribs) 15:45, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Good idea! I'd play that. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty 22:09, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hardcore Ultra nominated for deletion
The Hardcore Ultra word association has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Word Association/Hardcore Ultra by user:James1011R. Thryduulf (talk) 10:33, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Question about branches
Can I play the main game and a branch at the same time, i.e. can I add a word to the main game and one to the branch in the same edit (or two consecutive edits)? --(agnamaracs) (talk) 17:54, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Just don't play two words on the same game/branch. This applies to most games, except "Double Association" where you're supposed to play two words for everything instead of one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.155.75.15 (talk) 14:06, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Squaretree variant
Should I kill it, leave it, or limit it to Ultra fruit? James1011R (talk, contribs) 05:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Heatmap variant
Should I make one? You can see the proposal here: User:James1011R/Forge_2.0/GameRoom James1011R (talk, contribs) 05:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Continuity (?)
I guess I'm just slow, but I don't see that word X is related to word X+1 in this game. What does it mean to be "related"? Is it only that some user sees any kind of connection? (I might be a little thrown because this resembles a game my family has played where often it's a two-word phrase and the connection usually builds from the second part. Example: post office, office supplies, Air Supply, airport, Port-au-Prince...  We're not pedantic about it, but there's generally some word/homonym overlap between a word and its successor.) Jkgree (talk) 18:54, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Whatever the first word makes the editor think of becomes the next word. This can lead to some very large disparations between the words, if an outside observer is not privy to the editor's thoughts. Sometimes that could be a homo-overlap, but other times it could conjure thoughts on song lyrics that have nothing to do with them, the creator of the work, or even an inside joke about it. The beauty of the game is the sometimes disjointed nature of it. Just my 2-cents, Elfabet (talk) 12:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Edit request on 6 July 2021
Add Prisoner (Miley Cyrus song) JsfasdF252 (talk) 03:11, 6 July 2021 (UTC)


 * ❌ per WP:NOTHERE. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an online game. Please edit the page yourself, or take the appropriate steps to gain the ability to edit this page. Z1720 (talk) 20:43, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

We're getting close!

 * Should we enforce completing branch 5 before we finish the main game? Panini! 🥪 20:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * We should also try to end the game where we started Melaleuca amydra. Panini! 🥪 20:24, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Starting word
Clicked Special:Random and got Battle of Borghetto.  Invalid OS talk  15:34, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Almost done
After over two years, this game seems to be almost complete. One question, who's gonna pick the next word? Do we have a special method for doing that, or what? RteeeeKed 💬📖 23:19, 11 September 2023 (UTC)


 * If we're going off of Special:Random, I clicked it and got Fautor richeri. RteeeeKed 💬📖 19:09, 18 September 2023 (UTC)