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!

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.

At the bottom of the page is a template with links to other Word Association variations.

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, boat, ...

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.

For Game #32, in which the starting word was Battle of Borghetto and the ending word was Ham, with branches Marlin (went to Mollymawk), Peat Cutting Day (went to Minor Major seventh chord), ‽ (went to 🜁), iTunes (went to Number of the beast), and Horror punk (went to Popov v. Hayashi), see this link.

This is Game #33. The starting word, Hook sword, was selected by Special:Random.

#33: "Hook Sword" (main branch)

Hook sword, Bat'leth, Klingons, "Subspace Rhapsody", "Bohemian Rhapsody", Rockfield Studios, Wye Valley, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Conservation in the United Kingdom, Conservative Party (UK), Partygate, List of -gate scandals and controversies, Watergate, Watergate salad, Pineapple, SpongeBob SquarePants, Krusty Krab, Krusty the Clown, Crusty roll, Bread, Bread and Circuses, Bread and salt, Pretzel, Auntie Anne's, Aunt May, Aunt Esther, Book of Esther, Deuterocanon, Wisdom, Stupidity, WP:STUPID, List of films considered the worst, Vídeo Brinquedo, The Little Panda Fighter, Panda diplomacy, Ping-pong diplomacy, Forrest Gump, Forest of Dean, Black Forest, Black Forest Gateaux, Chocolate cake, Devil's Food Cake, Icing (food), Sugar, Glucose, Diabetes, Wilford Brimley, The Waltons, The Simpsons, Satire, Saturday Night Live, SMTV Live, Live television, Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, Today Show, Today (BBC Radio 4), Radio, RadioShack, Blockbuster, Blockhead!, Jenga, Jen Gates, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Arkansas, Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis City SC, Soccer, Football, Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers, Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Illinois, Garden of the Gods Wilderness, Garden of the Gods, Armadale Castle, MacDonald, McDonald's, Whataburger, Dairy Queen, Ice cream, "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream", 2023 in public domain, 2024 in public domain, Mickey Mouse, "Pinky and the Brain", Laboratory mouse, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, Hong Kong Phooey, Dog, Snoopy, Snoop Dogg, Snoop Dogg Attending, All Rise for Julian Clary, Kangaroo court, Night Court, John Larroquette, The John Larroquette Show, Delmar Loop station, Delmar Boulevard, University City, Missouri, Jayson Tatum, Channing Tatum, Drederick Tatum, "Bye Bye Nerdie", "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", Mary Poppins (film), Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, MTM Enterprises, The Bob Newhart Show, CBS, NBC, Peacock, Leucism, Albinism, Chlorosis, Chlorophyll, Green, Mr. Green, Priest, Nun, Monk, Monkees, Lagothrix lagothricha, Hapax legomenon, Honorificabilitudinitatibus, Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Hamlet (place), Town, Town of Salem, Salem Witch Trials, Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina Carpenter, Karen Carpenter, Carpentry, Woodworking, Woodturning, Wood, Fire, Fire extinguisher, Firefighting, Fighting, Digimon Data Squad, Digimon, Digital, Digital television, Persona 4: The Animation, Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award, Gothenburg, Johannes Gutenberg, Gutenberg Bible, The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Atomic bomb, Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron, Theranos, Wire fraud, Insurance fraud, Whiplash (medicine), TV Tropes, Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, Stith Thompson, Folklore studies, Religious studies, Hecataeus of Miletus, Historian, Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), Achaemenid Empire, Tomb of Cyrus the Great, Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Zarih, Mosque, Mosquito, Insect, Arthropod, Arachnid, Glossary of spider terms, Spider anatomy,

Word count is 190/555 as of word: Spider anatomy.

Branch 1: "John Larroquette"

John Larroquette, Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series), "Mary Had a Little Lamb", Phonograph, Album, Compact disc, Sony, Sonny, Sonny Bono, Cher, Nelly Furtado, Canada, Greenland, "Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit", National anthem, Nationalism, Norwegian romantic nationalism, Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord, "Bridal March", "Wedding March (Mendelssohn)", A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Twelve Days of Christmas, Partridge, I'm Alan Partridge, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Barbie, Shrimp, Shrimp (film), Zelda Williams, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Time, Thyme, Rosemary, Rosemary's Baby, Help:Disambiguation, Help!, "Yesterday", February 2nd, Punxsutawney Phil, Badger, Badger Badger Badger, Hampster Dance, Hamster, Guinea pig, Korabl-Sputnik 4, Space exploration, Star Trek, William Shatner, Order of Canada, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Canada and the Indigenous peoples of Canada, Canada, Maple leaf, Maple (software), MapleStory, West Side Story, Multistorey car park, Single-storey g, Q, Visitor Q, QAnon, Adrenochrome, Chrome, Chromosome, Deoxyribonucleic acid, Dihydrogen monoxide, Hydrogen peroxide, Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase (Re/Si-specific), Hydrogen, Cerium(IV) oxide–cerium(III) oxide cycle, Cerium, Scintillator, Scintillating scotoma, St Elmo's Fire, Ball lightning,

Word count is 77/100 as of word: Ball lightning.

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

Active Players

Casually Observing Players

11kowrom, Corey520, knoodelhed, PryItOpen, Kodukadvakch (KOE-due-KODD-vahk), Jonathan Weiss, Nil Einne, Yayasirrah, FrankCostanza, Dewar912, Milk77, Aquarius Rising, Xiagu, PrinceDog, Calibration, Ilyanep, mahlered, HappyCamper, Sceptre ^(Talk), ArkansasTraveler, gobeirne, Daniel, Ian Manka, Ghelae, Anthon, Majora4, Sotakeit, talktothehand07, Sonicrazy, Midgetmogget, Keeperoftheseal, Bubzie29!, Mproud, Jordan Elder(talk), MarinBeth, Qwertyuiop, Think Fast, He Who Is, Pharaoh Hound, Algebra, GregE, Gray Porpoise, ^Jeffklib, Keakealani, ? JARED ^(t), —Editor at Large, Robert, Edlin2, D•a•r•k•n•e•s•s•L•o•r•d•i•a•n•••C•••, youri, BLaNkStaRE, LokiV, Jake95, TheGoogle, IanF, namamyaham, User:Acid0057, User:Penwhale, User:LoganK, User:CommonEditor2345, Cocoaguy ここがいい _contribs^talkTodays Pick, Lady Unicorn, User:moteq, Fruit Boy, Witty lama, Ugliness Man, Moralis, buggles12345, Turk_b, Jake95_(talk!), Andrechies, Coolv(Talk • Contribs), User:Paul Italiano, User:Heidijane, Mrmoocow, Valse44, chromiumswitch, Strangerer, Puppy441,  DangerousNerd  talk, Maddie was here, Tetrahedron93, Shuttlebug, Dabomb87, Graham1352, Blade_boy222, ¥Ø§}{!}{9, ^R_uⁿ_e^m_a^s_t^e644, ColinCameron, User:Kannie, Man The Wise, J. Harkness, DocMcConL, User:CheckersO_O, Sardanaphalus, dgcopter, Umbralcorax, Truthanado, Alex, Vizzydix The Great, VirginiaWildlife, Stormie823, Sickfish, TensaiKashou, I dream of horses, 75.66.180.12, 68.4.78.250, Mr. Christian, Guerillero, User:David in DC, User:42canadian42, FuchsiaB, 50.55.85.125, User:Firejasperthedog, User:Bertin Shingiro, LadyUnicornEJG, mrsnorthstar, Origamite, Srolanh ^See._Say., NewJibaJabba, A Wikipedian on Wikipedia, 69.165.196.103, RedPanda25, 180.251.193.174, Ad Meliora, ActuallyNeverHappened02, Alcremie (talk), RyanW1995 Total: 128.

Rarely Observing Players

Da Vynci, PointyOintment, IHudson, Silly, Bob the ducq, RKplayer2004, Zoophilia, Quate, EinsteiNewton, Alexanderpas (talk), Dixonsej (talk), John Wormell, Samurai 004, Addict 2006 (Don't take my name seriously), @kshay (talk), User:Smudger94, BarbieJay, OlEnglish, Kerdek (Tell me if I screw up), jbrowning30, User:Andythepiano (First timer yay), 2KT, XercesBlue: Wikibaby, 7&6=thirteen, User: ElleZinsser, 2Awwsome, Sudo edit this page (talk), Auric, srini, Bluebird202, Pigeonqueen98, Has a Username (talk), Ready for word action! Ghinga7 (talk), Sky6t, Hans T.M / Hans5958^{Talk | Guestbook}, Opalzukor, User:Q288, User:I am Rjsb0192 Total: 38.