Word Association Game

Posted by Stacy in Blog & Internet on January 8, 2009 at 11:04 pm


OK, it’s not exactly a game, but it is kind of entertaining in a mindless way. It’s pretty simple: the site gives you a word and you type in the first word that comes to mind. Then it gives you another word based on the word you just gave – the site is essentially learning word connections from the people who use the site. You can get stats on each word to see if you think the same way other people do or not. It’s also kind of fun to come up with a word no one has entered yet – you end up stumping the computer, and it adds your word to its list.
It’s a good time-waster.

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10 comments to "Word Association Game"

  1. Justin
    January 8th, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    I got stable, so I typed horse. Then it gave me Fu#ker

    I wasn't sure what to say to that... :)

  2. Nathan Miller
    January 9th, 2009 at 1:13 am

    I've played this before. It's kinda annoying after about 10 minutes or so...

  3. Monique
    January 9th, 2009 at 2:17 am

    I don't understand how to read the statistics. And I agree, it gets boring pretty fast.

  4. DaveL
    January 9th, 2009 at 2:40 am

    >I got stable, so I typed horse. Then it gave me Fu#ker
    >I wasn’t sure what to say to that… :)

    Catherine.

  5. Rocky Rook
    January 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    I'll never get those few minutes back in my life.

  6. Stacy
    January 9th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    Maybe I'm the only one who found this interesting. :)

  7. sw
    January 9th, 2009 at 11:37 am

    i played last time too. it's kind of entertaining.

  8. ted
    January 9th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    You and whoever posted it. It got annoying within the first couple of words.

  9. tomfrombenzie
    January 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    I got quite a few that weren't in their dictionary.I guess I must think differently.

  10. just a guy
    January 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am

    There's an inherent problem with the way this is set up, from a psychological standpoint. The engine, by giving you back a word associate with your reply, creates as 'coloring' of what you will next say, based on the entire experience, instead of just the word. So it's not really 'word association' but 'them association' to an extent.

    Justin's post illustrates this well. In word association, given the word f**ker, he'd want to reply with what came to mind given that one word as input, but instead, he had 'horse f**ker' influencing his thought.

    the program should provide your next word randomly with no connection to your previous answer if they are trying to collect data on what words people associate with each other. Otherwise, their results on each word association will be 'corrupted' by each individual's previous chain. (for example, if earlier back-and-forth of "day-night-sleep-bed" will probably inspire a different next word that would "photosynthesis-leaves-flower-bed".)


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