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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

Good idea! I'd play that. Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty | Averted crashes} 22:09, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Squaretree variant

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Edit request on 6 July 2021

This edit request by an editor with a partial block was declined.

Add Prisoner (Miley Cyrus song) JsfasdF252 (talk) 03:11, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done 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)[reply]

We're getting close!

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

Starting word

Clicked Special:Random and got Battle of Borghetto. Invalid ^OS _talk 15:34, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

Game 34 - 100th word reached - would like to start a branch, don't know how to...

Hi. I have placed the 100th word in the main branch of Game 34, and would like to start a branch of that game. I do not know how to do this, and cannot find any instructions for it. Anyone able to help me please? Thanks! Dane|Geld 15:19, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Changing other people's edits... I think I'm possibly going to be in trouble...

Someone playing the game keeps marking the 10th word thing in the wrong way. I've corrected it a few times now, they're marking every 11th word, which is confusing when you're trying to remember to mark the next 10th word! I may be in trouble for modifying someone else's edits, so until I can figure it out, I'm gonna step back from the game. Once I clarify whether I'm ok to go on, or if I'm on Jankers, then I'll deal with it. Thanks. Dane|Geld 17:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I keep marking the 11th word when I do it as its meant to be that whoever does the 10th word is meant to put it is that tenth word but whoever keeps putting the next tenth word doesn't do it. Please anyone, if you write the word that is before the next 10, please indicate it is that one. Eg. , ,  etc. Difficultly north (talk) Time, department skies 16:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry if I offended you - I've been moving the 11th word marks, back to the next 10th word. I keep getting confused and trying to figure out how far we're through. There were notes in the results of the last game indicating that there were miscounts, I think. My mathematics sucks! Sorry :) Dane|Geld 22:11, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I wasn't offended. I was just getting frustrated when people didn't mark the 10th word. Difficultly north (talk) Time, department skies 14:51, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of Word Association

I wonder if this should be included. Digging back, it appears the first game began on July 6, 2005 with the word "free". [1]. 71.29.14.29 (talk) 00:36, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]