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[[Clippers]],

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The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the community of Wikipedians, both young and old editors, with things to make them stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia. Below, you can find a fun and simple game to play.

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!

For those who are curious, the first game began on July 6, 2005. The beginning word was “free”.

This is a fun and simple game. It was originally a Sandbox subpage and is part of the Department of Fun nowadays — 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. We also welcome more players to join! You can help promote by adding the userbox below. At the bottom of the page is a template with links to other Word Association variations.

Userbox

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. Also, try to avoid miscounting if possible – make sure there are 10 words in at each 10th word!

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, a random country in Europe, an obscure British TV channel, or even a fictional restaurant!

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 “The Perfect Storm (book)“, and “Latin” by “Classical language“.

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.

This is Game #38. The starting word, Twin Groves Wind Farm, was selected by Special:Random.

#38: “Twin Groves Wind Farm” (main branch)

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Twin Groves Wind Farm,
McLean County,
AJ McLean,
Backstreet Boys,
Beastie Boys,
Adam Horovitz,
Adam Sandler,
Happy Gilmore 2,
Golf,
Caddyshack,
Rodney Dangerfield,
Rappin’ Rodney,
Comedy hip-hop,
“The Humpty Dance“,
Humpty Dumpty,
Egg,
Sperm,
Whale,
Wales,
Cardiff,
Roald Dahl,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Cadbury,
Cadbury Creme Egg,
Kinder Surprise,
Kindergarten,
Preschool,
Playskool,
Play-Doh,
Silly Putty,
Slime (toy),
Green,
Emerald,
Emerald City,
Emerald ash borer,
Beetle,
Dung beetle,
Beetlejuice,
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,
Michael Keaton,
Alex P. Keaton,
Alex Trebek,
Jeopardy!,
General knowledge,
Carnal knowledge,
Euphemism,
Censorship,
Ministry of Truth,
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
George Orwell,
George Foreman,
George (name),
George I,
Charles III,
Charles Edward Stuart,
Stuart Little,
E. B. White,
Barry White,
Vanna White,
Miss Georgia USA,
Miss Universe,
The Jetsons,
The Flintstones,
Fruity Pebbles,
Breakfast cereal,
Cap’n Crunch,
Captain Stubing,
Gavin MacLeod,
MacLeod of Raasay,
Scottish Gaelic,
Scotland,
Bagpipes,
Uilleann pipes,
Woodwind instrument,
Oboe,
“Gabriel’s Oboe“,
The Mission (1986 film),
Jesuits,
Francis Xavier,
Pope Francis,
Benedict XVI,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Doctor Strange,
Dr. Strangelove,
Stanley Kubrick,
2001: A Space Odyssey,
HAL 9000,
Hal Sparks,
Hal Leonard,
Kawhi Leonard,
Clippers,

Word count is 91/555 as of word: Clippers.

For Game #36, in which the starting word was Herbert S. Duffy and the ending word was Snow White, with branches Jar (went to Postage stamp), Grammy Awards (went to Diode), T-bone steak (went to Mammal), Iran (went to White chocolate), and A-level (went to Angina), see this link.