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Intro

This is a fun and simple game. It's in the Sandbox — 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

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

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, ...

Repeated Words

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 "Belmont, Massachusetts", 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!

Rules

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 must not be raised.

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 5-6. Branches may contain up to 100 words maximum and 35 minimum.

For Game #24, in which the starting word was Dark Side of the Moon and the ending word was Wild America with branches Tin Man, Ho Chi Minh City, James T. Kirk, Boston butt, and Euler totient function, see this link.

This is Game #25, starting with the word "Garner H. Tullis". It was selected by Special:Random.

Main Game #25: "Garner H. Tullis"

Garner H. Tullis, Ghana, John Atta Mills, John Mills, Order of the British Empire, Gordon Banks, Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model, American Idol, Idol, Indiana Jones, "Indiana Wants Me", Indianapolis, Indianapolis 500, Pennsylvania 6-5000, Glenn Miller, "In the Mood", "The Nolans", Christopher Nolan, Christopher Lloyd, Wise old man, Yoda, Green, Jolly Green Giant, Ho Ho Ho, Santa Claus, The Night Santa Went Crazy, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, "Life on Mars", Face on Mars, Man on the moon, Andy Kaufman, Marta Kauffman, Friends, Shortland Street, Southland, Texas, Texas hold 'em, Bankruptcy, Bailout, GM Motors, President of the United States, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, 24-hour news cycle, News, BBC, BBC Radio 2, Radio News, Altair 8800, Atari, Atari Jauguar, List of commercial failures in video gaming, Custer's Revenge, George Armstrong Custer, Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Annie Oakley, Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin, Belarus, Chernobyl, Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao, Communism, Karl Marx, Karl Marx, Siegmund von Hausegger, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel, Messiah, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Holy Grail, Grill, Barbecue, Australia, 2000 Sydney Olympics, Steve Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Vanessa Hudgens, Vanessa Feltz, W. Mark Felt, Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon, Impeachment, Impeachment of Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Arkansas, Mount Magazine, Mount Olympus, Bacchus, B. A. Baracus, Bachelor of Arts, New Zealand, Flight of the Conchords, USS Concord, Concord, Massachusetts, Nanae, Hokkaidō, Japan, Taiwan, Taipei, Beijing, New York City, World Trade Center, Sears Tower, "What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?", "Kiss my grits", Kiss My Ankh, Ankhesenamun, Cleopatra, Carry On Cleo, Caesar and Cleo, Caesars Palace, The Partridge Family, The Cartridge Family, "The City of New York vs Homer Simpson", The Critic, The Clinic, The Doctor, Doctor Doctor, The secret Show, Secret Square, Trafalgar Square, Hollywood Squares, Riviera Hotel and Casino, 3000 Miles To Graceland, Crazy Girls Undercover, "Crazy For You", Madonna (entertainer), Jesus, Christianity, Gladiator, Roman Empire, Julius Caesar, Nero Caesar, Nero Wolfe, Jessica Fletcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City, City, Springfield, Missouri, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Nebraska, Nebraska Territory, Omaha, Omaha Beach, Operation Overlord, Normandy Landings, France, Disneyland Paris, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Duck Dogers, Buck Rogers, Amazing Stories, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Cleveland Cavaliers, Chevrolet Cavalier, Caviar, Egg, Ovum, Oven, Kitchen, Sink, Float, Root Beer Float, Ice Cream Soda, Augustus Jackson, August, October, October Sky, NASA, Apollo 11, Apollo 11 goodwill messages, Thomas O. Paine, Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Common Sense, Sense, Hearing, Herring, Red herring (idiom), Diversion, Division, Multiplication, Factorial!, Math, Calculus, Kidney stone, Kidney bean, Kidney Pie, Steak and kidney pudding, Rumpole of the Bailey, Old Bailey, V (comics), V for Vendetta, Natalie Portman, Actress, Actor, Occupation, Firefighter, Street Fighter, Arcade Game, Pac-Man, Man, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, H.G Wells, The War of the Worlds, The World at War, All This and World War II, How I Won the War, John Lennon, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, "Imagine", Imagination, Imaginationland, Disneyland, Strange Land, Odd, Weird, Wired, Electricity, Power, "Power to the People", United States Constitution, Unconstitutional, Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, List of decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal relating to Article 52(2) and (3) EPC, Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, Patent, Albert Einstein, Einsteinium, Actinoid, Altoids, Mentos, Portamento, Port, Port-of-Spain, "Lady of Spain", Lady of the Lake, Lake Superior, Mother Superior, Peter Mullan, Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Bell tower, Portmeirion, Wales, Prince of Wales, Prince of Persia, Shah of Iran, Iranian Revolution, Revolutionary Guard, Revolutionary Road, Revolutionary War, Banana Wars, Banana Republic, Conch Republic, Micronation, Microsoft, Apple, Orange, Month, June, July, Fourth of July, Independence Day (film), ALF, Paul Fusco, Donnie Brasco, FBI, CIA, Culinary Institute of America, Julia Child, Destiny's Child, Destiny of the Daleks, Doctor (Doctor Who), Valeyard, Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard, Martha Stewart, Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, USS Enterprise, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Shuttlecock, Stopcock, Cockblock, Blocks, Tetris, Addiction, Heroin, Illegal drug trade, Tijuana, Drug cartel, Medellín, Colombia, District of Columbia, Washington, DC, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Howard the Duck, Donald Duck, "Disco Duck", Disco, "Disco Inferno", Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta, Grease (film), Olivia Newton-John, Physical (Olivia Newton-John song), "Medley:Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Stars on 45", 45th parallel north, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Newark, Newark International Airport, EWR, LAX, Qantas, Qwerty, Keyboard (computing) Dreamcast Keyboard, Sega Dreamcast, Sega Genesis, Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Hedgehog, Groundhog, Groundhog Day (film), Werehog, Warthog, Timon and Pumbaa, The Lion King, Monarchy, Absolute Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, United Kingdom, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Fall of Man, Battle of Fallen Timber, Radiata Pine, Bishop Pine, Lumberjack, The Lumberjack Song, Mounties, Canada, "O Canada", "Advance Australia Fair", "The Star-Spangled Banner", Patriotism, Nationalism, Chauvinism, Archie Bunker, All in the Family, Queens, New York City, Apple, Apple pie, Apple, Inc, iPod, iPhone, Nokia N-Gage, John Gage (Emergency!), 000 Emergency, 999 (emergency telephone number), Emergency service, Fire and Rescue Service, Service, Electropop, Nikola Tesla, Fallout 3, Radioactive fallout, The Day After, The Day After Tomorrow, Dennis Quaid, Dennis the Menace, The Beano, Beano, Lima bean, Lime, Fruit, Orange, Color wheel, Disney's World of Color, Paradise Pier, Disney's California Adventure, Adventure City, Amusement park, Six Flags America, Six Flags Great America, Space Shuttle America, NASA, Space Race, Death Race 2000, Death Race (1976 game) , Arcade, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Saturn, Uranus, Solar system, Milky Way, Bit-O-Honey, Hi Honey, I'm Home!, Honey, Hungry, Hungary, Debrecen, DEFCON, Defcon (video game), WarGames (game), War, Risk (game), Reduced instruction set computer, CPU design, Personal computer, Hacker (computer security), Neo (The Matrix), Nero, Optical disc authoring, CD-R, Compact disc, Polycarbonate, Polymer, Polyarny, Polygamy, Harem, Harlem, Harlem Globetrotters, Pope John Paul II, Vatican City, Italy, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Burj Khalifa, Overcompensation, hyperinflation, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Order of the Bath, Richard Johns, Johns Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins, Port Talbot, Port Moresby, Port Adventura, Theme park, Six Flags, Six flags over Texas, Arlington, Cemetary, Cement, Romans, Great Fire of Rome, "Great Balls of Fire", Men on Film, Girls on Film, Duran Duran, Rio, Brazil, South America, North America, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama City, Florida, Pensacola, Jerry Penacoli, WTVJ, NBC, Peacock, Clue (game), The Game (mind game), "The Game" (Star Trek TNG ep.), Three-dimensional chess, Chess, King, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Drama Queen, Drama, The Secret Life of Bees (film), Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, Plantar, Plancton, SpongeBob SquarePants, David Hasselhoff, Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Family Matters, Urkel, Eyeglasses, Contact lens, Laser eye Surgery, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Straight Outta Lynwood, White & Nerdy, White people, Race, Racism, NASCAR Racing, Car, "Drive My Car", Driving, Driving Miss Daisy, Morgan Freeman, Freedom, Furniture, Table, Mesa, Black Mesa, Oklahoma, State, Water, H₂O, Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, Ozone, Allotrope, Isomer, Isotope, Half-life, Ununseptium, Ununoctium, Ununennium, Alkali metal, Metal, Electrical conductor, Insulator, Thermal insulation, Heat transfer, Second law of thermodynamics, Entropy, Entropy, "The Last Question", Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Dolphin, Cetacean, Crustacean, Crustacea, Crab, Krabby, Kingler,

Word count is 548/555 as of word: Kingler.

Branch #1: Nanae, Hokkaidō (branch closed)

Nanae, Hokkaidō, Nanny, The Nanny, Fran Drescher, U.S. State Department, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, John Terry, Terry Eagleton, National University of Ireland, Galway, Gallifrey, List of Doctor Who planets, List of NC-17 movies, NCC-1701, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Spaceship Earth, Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock, Order of the British Empire, Setting Sun, Rising Sun, Flag of Japan, Circle, π, Pi (film), Requiem for a Dream, "Requiem for Methuselah", Methuselah, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt, Springfield, Missouri, Springfield (The Simpsons), Shelbyville (The Simpsons), Ogdenville, Ogden, Illinois, Champaign County, Illinois, Champagne, Vodka, Martini, Olive, Olive oil, Olive Oyl, Popeye, Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, KFC, Colonel Sanders, Ronald McDonald, William McDonald, "Old McDonald Had a Farm", Farm, Animal Farm, 1984, Stalinism, Marxism, Groucho Marx, You Bet Your Life, I Bet You Will, I spit on your Grave, Necrophilia, Coffin, Coughing, Sneeze, Flu, Flue, Flute, Woodwind, Percussion, Djembe, Goblet drum, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Goblin, Green Goblin, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS, TBS, WGN, Chicago, Sears Tower, World Trade Center, Well-Tempered Clavier, Musical keyboard, Harpsichord, String instrument, Piano, Forte, Fort, Fort Dix, Fort Knox, Gold, Thomas Gold, Elliott Gould, Goa'uld.

Word count is 98/98 as of word: Goa'uld.

Branch #2: V for Vendetta (branch closed)

V for Vendetta, Dystopia, Fatherland, The Man in the High Castle, Alternative history, Science fiction, Psyence Fiction, Fan fiction, FanFiction.net , Fannett, Texas, Interstate 10, Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mexico, New Spain, Spain, Bullfighting, Ernest Hemingway, Key West, Kayne West, Meme, "The End of the World" The End is the Beginning is the End, An End Has a Start, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)", Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French Revolution, "Revolution", Wii, Wee, Oui, Ouija, Wicca, Wicket, Ewok, Yoda, Muppet, Puppet, Manger Babies, Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot, Hey Jude, The White Album, White Pony, Smack the Pony, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: The Movie, My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "The Twelve Days of Christmas", Christmas tree, Evergreen tree, Pine, Pinecone, Coney Island, Walley World, Wally Cleaver, Meat cleaver, Knife, Combat knife, Mortal Kombat, Mortality, Life and death, "Live and Let Die", Live and Let Live, "I Just Wanna Live", "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", Fun, "Fun, Fun, Fun", The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds, Bark (dog), Dog, Boxer (dog), Boxing, Cardboard box, Homelessness, Hooverville, The Great Depression, Great Depression in South Africa, Mining in South Africa, Strip mine.

Word count is 82/82 as of word: Strip mine.

Branch #3: Drug cartel (branch closed)

Drug cartel, Smuggling, Crime, Criminal justice, Criminology, Sociology, Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, Volcano, Lava flow, Lava lamp, Novelty item, Novelty record, Vinyl record, Compact disc, Blu-Ray Disc, Blue (Da Ba Dee), Blue Meanie, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Lucy (Australopithecus), Lucy van Pelt, Scott Van Pelt, ESPN, Eurosport, EuroDisney, Spain, Barcelona, Balogna, Bologna sausage, Oscar Mayer, Oscar Niemeyer, The Tin Drum, Günter Grass, Germany, Berlin, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Anaheim Amigos, Samba de Amigo, Amigos Para Siempre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar, Christ the Redeemer, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Tibet, Tintin in Tibet, Tintin in Thailand, Thailand, Siamese cat, Cats (musical), The Golden Girls, FOX Classics, FOX News, Cox Communications, Courtney Cox, Friends, David Schwimmer, LA Law, L.A. Confidential, Los Angeles County, Orange County.

Word count is 64/64 as of word: Orange County.

Branch #4: Nintendo 64 (branch closed)

Nintendo 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, Metroid, Meteor, Shooting Star, Kirby Super Star, Samus Aran, Saruman, The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Baron Wilhelm von Biela , Astronomy, Astronaut, Jim Lovell, Apollo 13, Moon, Phobos, Mars, Ares, Zeus, Zoos, Animal domestication, Dog, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas in the media, Santa Claus, Coca-Cola, New Coke, New Labour, Labor Day, Labor union, Progressivism, Progressive Party (United States, 1912), Official Monster Raving Loony Party, David Sutch, Davy Jones, The Monkees, The Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", Sewer, Sewing, Golden Needle Sewing School, Taliban treatment of women, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Thong, Bong, Hookah, Caterpillar, Caterpillar Inc., List of Illinois companies, McDonald's, Ray Kroc, American, Canadian, Rodney McKay, Hamish McKay, Hamish Blake, Cyclone Hamish (2009), Bureau of Meteorology (Australia), Weather, The Weather Channel, TVLand, Viacom, New York City, New York Cosmos, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Carl Sagan, Billion, Trillion, Number, Safe prime, Safe, Safety (firearms), Gunpowder, Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes, Guy Fieri, Pancreas, Insulin, Diabetes, Sugar, "Sugar, Sugar", The Archies, The Partridge Family, Danny Bonaduce, Susan Dey, Susan, Sesame Street, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Foo-Foo

Word count is 99/99 as of word: Foo-Foo.

Branch #5: White & Nerdy

White & Nerdy, Ridin', "Ride Captain Ride", Sally Ride, NASA, I Dream of Jeannie, List of films considered the worst, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Deciduous teeth, Deciduous tree, Maple tree, Maple leaf, Canada, Commonwealth of Nations, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth I, House of Tudor, Henry VIII, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech, Ich bin ein Berliner, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kerry, Teresa Heinz, Ketchup, Heinz Tomato Ketchup, "Ketchup is a vegetable", School meal, Disgusting, How Clean is Your House?, Billy Mays, Willie Mays, Alabama, Mississippi, Jackson, Jacksonville, Florida, The Golden Girls, Nurses, Empty Nest, Empty nest, Nester, Nintendo Power, Nintendo, Wii, We, They, Personal pronoun, Possessive pronoun, Genitive case, Genitals, Gentiles, Jews, Juice, Pineapple, SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward, Heimlich maneuver, Choking, Blue, Sky, SKY TV, KYTV, NBC, PBS, Non-profit organization, 501(c), 401(k), 42, Unhappy number, Illegal prime number, Freedom of expression, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Religion, Lie, Saint Augustine,

Word count is 78/87 as of word: Saint Augustine.

Players

Here is where you can place your name and become a common player.

@@ Line 1,100: / Line 1,100: @@
 [[Religion]],
 [[Lie]],
+[[Saint Augustine]], <!-- Wrote two books about lies -->
 <!-- PLEASE update the word count and last word whenever you add a word -->
-''Word count is 77/87 as of word: '''[[Lie]]'''.
+''Word count is 78/87 as of word: '''[[Saint Augustine]]'''.
 <!-- MAXIMUM: 555. LEAVE A BLANK LINE ABOVE THIS ONE. Don't forget to change the word count and the current word, but do not update ahead of time or state incoherent info. There have been miscounts in the previous games. AVOID miscounting!