Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Word Association

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The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the Wikipedian community, both young and old editors, with things to make them stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia. Below, you can find links to fun pages or fun things to do, other Wikipedian Associations, and a list of members who help with the creation and upkeep of entertaining or fun pages.

Please, if you have ideas for activities or competitions, do not hesitate to post them to the discussion page or join the Department of Fun. And above all, enjoy yourself!


This is a fun and simple game. It's played in the Sandbox and hosted by the Wikipedia:Department of Fun — feel free to join in! Why not? It's a good place to practice making links to articles and find interesting pages to edit on Wikipedia.

How to play[edit]

Simply, the game involves adding a single word to the list that is related to the previous one. Edit the main game or branch section, add a word, enclose it in brackets, update the word count, and save the page.

An Example[edit]

By way of example, a game might start off with: cat. Then, the next person might add cat, dog. And after a few more rounds, we might get cat, dog, pet, animal, forest, tree, house, boat, ...

Repeated Words[edit]

Avoid repeating words, and keep the links tasteful! Please use only blue links when associating. Piped links are acceptable in certain circumstances, such as when a word may have many ambiguities, like [[Queen (band)|Queen]]. Clearly, as the game develops, one gets a pretty long list! If you're stuck for ideas, link to the last word in the list and add the first link that appears on that page as the next link. Thus "Sebastian Junger" would be followed by "Documentary film", and "Latin" by "Italic languages".

In the spirit of the game, please type only one word consecutively. Then another person can respond to your word, and the game continues!


Players can only play one associated word at a time. If the current word is chair, the next player can only add musical chairs, not musical chairs and party games as well.

In game, as usual, it is a must to update the word count each time you add a word. The official limit for the main game is 555 words. Please note that this word limit for this game must not be raised or lowered.

Every 100th word may be made into a new branch. However, there cannot be any sub-branches and therefore the total number of Branches possible in this game are 5. Branches may contain up to 100 words maximum and 35 minimum.

Please also add <!--(number)th word--> every ten words to show it is the next tenth word e.g. <!--20th word-->, <!--30th word--> etc.

For Game #28, in which the starting word was Denver Basin and the ending word was Fog with branches Stomach, Dumbphone, Los Angeles, Web browser, and Maelstrom, see this link.

This is Game #29, starting with the word "Marc Forster". It was selected by Special:Random.

Main Game[edit]

#29: Marc Forster[edit]

Marc Forster, Mark Forster, Time management, Procrastination, Work aversion, Goofing off, Goofy Gophers, Goofy Goof, Mickey Mouse, House Mouse, Mousetrap, Trap, The Parent Trap, Twins, Singleton, Zygote, Sperm, Y chromosome, Y, SRY, Sorry, Board game, Chess, Scotch Game, Scotch whisky, Scotch Tape, 3M, 3M-54 Klub, Klub, Potato dumpling, Gnocchi, Pietro Gnocchi, Pietro Bembo, Italian language, Papal States, Rome, Romulus and Remus, King of Rome, Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, Antipope, Crusader Kings II, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kufic, Flag of Iraq, Iraq, Mesopotamia, Tamia, Windsor, Ontario, Windsor Castle, London Blitz, Second World War, Battle of Attu, Alaska, Distant Early Warning Line, Russian Woodpecker, Over-the-horizon radar, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", Elton John, Billy Elliot the Musical, UK miners' strike (1984-1985), Margaret Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatching, England, Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth Taylor, Taylor Swift, Taylor Dayne, Long Island, Queens, Queen (chess), Chess, Checkmate, The Prisoner, GULAG, Siberia, Tundra, Canada, Canadians, Tim Hortons, Horton (surname), Surname, Suriname, French Guiana, France, French fries, Potato, Potato chip, Deep frying, Frying, Fried chicken, Kentucky, Battle of Perryville, Perryville, Arkansas, Little Rock, Big Rock, Mountain, Kilimanjaro Expedition, Kenya, Ken, Barbie, Barbados, Barbados Blackbelly sheep, Blackberry, BlackBerry Ltd, Handheld device, Grenade, Grenada, Invasion of Grenada, Ronald Reagan, Cold War, George Orwell, Spanish Civil War, Civil War, Wars of the Roses, English Civil War, Russian Civil War, Animal Farm, Allegory, Parable, Fable, Aesop, Ancient Greece, Zeus, Jupiter, Gas giant, Ice giant, Neptune, Uranus, Oberon (moon), Oberonomyia, Fly, Regurgitate, Vomit, Bulimia, Bulimia Test-Revised, Personality test, Personality, Person, Sapience, Sapien, Human reproduction, Human fetus, Placenta, Reproduction, Sex position, 69 (number), 69 position, Oral sex, Fellatio, Lewinsky scandal, Bill Clinton, President of the United States, "Lump", Alternative rock, 120 Minutes, 60 Minutes, Gone in 60 Seconds, Second, John Adams, Massachusetts, Memoirs v. Massachusetts, Roth v. United States, Miller v. California, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, First Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, Pakistan, Shalwar kameez, Afghanistan, National Assembly, Parti Québécois, Sovereignty, Secession, Catalonia, Catalonia Offensive, Homage to Catalonia, POUM, Marxism, Soviet Union, Sochi, Russia, 2014 Winter Olympics, Jamaica national bobsleigh team, Jamaica, Caribbean, The Secret of Monkey Island, Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars, R2-D2, Secrecy, Confidentiality, Edward Snowden, Central Intelligence Agency, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Fidel Castro, Thurston Howell, III, CBS, CBS Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony, Betamax, Beta, Beta Crucis, Beta particle, Alpha particle, Triple-alpha process,

Word count is 210/555 as of word: Triple-alpha process.

Branch #1: "Little Rock" (branch closed)[edit]

Little Rock, Little Rock International Airport, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Casimir Pulaski, Katherine Pulaski, Katherine of Aragon, Aragorn, Legolas, LEGO, Brick, Riot, Los Angeles riots, 40th Infantry Division (United States), United States Army, M1 Abrams, Abraham, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Tenure of Office Act, Term limits, President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, World War II, Attack on Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Enterprise, Battle of Midway, Imperial Japanese Navy, Pacific War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, Dutch Republic, One Republic, MySpace, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jerry Zucker (film director), Jerry Zucker, Israeli American, Natalie Portman, Citizenship in the United States, Citizenship, Lost Canadians, Robert Goulet, Lancelot, King Arthur, List of legendary kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey Plantagenet, House of Plantagenet, House of Normandy, William the Conqueror, Norman conquest of England, Battle of Hastings, Battle of Bosworth, Richard III of England, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonardo da Vinci, Artist, Painter, Vincent van Gogh, Self-mutilation, Suicide, Adolf Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich, Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Nazi Germany, Battle of Berlin, Red Army, Soviet Union, "Back in the U.S.S.R.", The Beatles, Beatlemania, Dalekmania, Terry Nation, The Daleks' Master Plan, Doctor Who, Amy Pond, Karen Gillan, Inverness, Jacobite Risings, Jacobite succession, Charles Edward Stuart, George II of Great Britain, House of Hanover, Princess Sophia of Gloucester, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Benjamin Atwood Smith II, Ted Kennedy, Owl Club (Harvard), Harvard College, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Ontario, London, Ontario.

Word count is 100/100 as of word: London, Ontario.

Branch #2: Thurston Howell, III[edit]

Thurston Howell, III, Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo, Animated cartoon, Animation, Live action, Reality, Universe, Cosmos, Kosmos 557, Soviet space program, Zond program,

Word count is 12/100 as of word: Zond program.

Branch #3:[edit]

Word count is 0/100 as of word: .

Branch #4:[edit]

Word count is 0/100 as of word: .

Branch #5:[edit]

Word count is 0/100 as of word: .


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