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http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi

A word association game (written by an American, just so you know).
You can paste in the URL of someone else's game on the save page and share the answers, too.

patita, Friday, 17 August 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link

This game is weird.

So far the words that have helped are "pig", "tractor", "Judaism", "chicken", "horse", "egg", and "cow".

polyphonic, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link

the poker stars bit plain sucks unless you're a Texas Holdem lover, but a bit of googling will get you sorted.

patita, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

I entered the name of like thirty hold em guys but only a few of them were in there.

polyphonic, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm missing 2 on the poker square.

patita, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Is the purpose of the game to get everything, or open the map, or both.

polyphonic, Friday, 17 August 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I notice that punctuation doesn't matter (re: the religion square), but does spelling matter? E.g. does "cows" open up "cow"?

Leee, Friday, 17 August 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

There's apparently some kind of meta clue that's part of the purpose (go ahead and read the hints--it doesn't give anything away). Spelling seems to matter sometimes and not others, so far as I have seen.

patita, Friday, 17 August 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

SPOILERS

Leee, Friday, 17 August 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, I'm really bad at this and I'm giving up for now; here's far I got.

Leee, Friday, 17 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link

What I got. Note that clicking on someone else's link replaces your progress with theirs.

abanana, Saturday, 18 August 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Man, I played this a year ago. It's a bitch.

Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Ugh, some of those answers are stupid! How am I supposed to know some dude's Slashdot username?

polyphonic, Saturday, 18 August 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link

what i have now. addictive!

abanana, Sunday, 19 August 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link

I HATE THIS GAME.

Ms Misery, Sunday, 19 August 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

My progress.

Leee, Sunday, 19 August 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link

and mine again. Leee, I used your progress to improve mine. I also found one of the yellow words (oooooh)

abanana, Sunday, 19 August 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Cool, Alan! And I used yours for virtually all the cartoon and time squares.

Leee, Sunday, 19 August 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link

OK, I have to save this for a rainy/work day, because otherwise I'm not getting me-stuff done. Before I link my progress, just a hint: the theme of the bottom-left square is movies.
Not a whole lot of progres, but unlocked a few key things/themes.

Leee, Sunday, 19 August 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link

A little more

abanana, Sunday, 19 August 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link

tiny bit more

abanana, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

3 or 4 more words

abanana, Monday, 20 August 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link

lots more

Yes, I am unemployed.

abanana, Monday, 20 August 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link

glad i gave up and looked at the answers, never in a million years would i have got some of those stupid links

Ste, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Alan, one of us needs to drink more.

Leee, Monday, 20 August 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link

more

abanana, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link

I, also, hate this game.

Jordan, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm just cheating now.

Leee, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

OK I cheated my way to the end. The left half of the meta-puzzle doesn't relate to the answer, very unsatisfying. And how is "mafia" related to "scientology"? D&D related to computer games but not board games?

abanana, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 05:46 (sixteen years ago) link

It starts great, gets maddening then great for a bit, and then in the end the returns diminish to nil. Seems like a great idea, I'd love to see one that's less focussed on obscure details of uncommon interests.

patita, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

this might do the trick right now

i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 2 June 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link


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