Word Association game

Many of us may have played this game as kids. The rules are very simple:

  • You say the word:
do while(true) { 
  • I say the first association to your word that came to my mind
  • You give an association to my association:
} 

For example, Dog → Cat → Pet → Toy → Baby → Girl → Wedding → Funeral. In the game, people reveal their life experience and way of thinking to each other; maybe that's why we could play it for hours as kids. Different people have different associations with the same word, and associations often head towards a completely unexpected direction. Psychologists have been studying associative series for more than a century, hoping to find in them the key to the mysteries of consciousness and the subconscious. ...

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