Help me remember a word association game

October 15, 2019 12:18 PM

I rememeber playing a web-based game circa 2009-2010. It started out with a word like "farm" and you had to guess words related to the word farm. Words like "ox," "rooster," "tractor" unlocked new boxes, and you could guess more words related to those. This network expanded further and further out into theme-based squares in a larger board: so there was a "magician" box, a "Britain" box, etc. Does this ring a bell for anybody? My googling is turning up nothing.
posted by soonertbone to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (7 answers total)

Was it Lateral, on Kongregate?
posted by hanov3r at 12:23 PM on October 15, 2019

Best answer: I'm on my work computer so I cant link to it, but it was called Funny Farm. If you google Funny Farm word game, you'll find it!
posted by silverstatue at 12:27 PM on October 15, 2019 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: FUNNY FARM. Thank you!
posted by soonertbone at 12:28 PM on October 15, 2019

Is there a way to play this now?
posted by MillyMath at 4:49 PM on October 15, 2019 [1 favorite]

Wow this must've gone down in the past month or so, because I definitely played it recently! Now when I click on my bookmark, I get an error page.
posted by silverstatue at 9:00 PM on October 15, 2019

Archive.org has a (broken) copy of the game. Also, the developer's site is down, but the Wayback mirror has a copy of his contact page if you want to try tracking him down.
posted by Rhaomi at 11:18 PM on October 15, 2019

There was a metafilter post about it in 2006.
posted by rollick at 2:32 AM on October 16, 2019