Excellent point, tsuwm. I think the challenges make the fun of the game--just seeing how people went about making a connection where one might not be apparent at first.

If we really did want to play, maybe we could set up a three-hour time frame between the posting of a word, and either a challenge or the appearance of a new word. It's pretty easy to see when someone's posted by the AWAD clock.

But there would be another problem. Let's say you challenged ear candy, what then? Would the three-hour time frame then go into action for people to either agree or disagree with your challenge before you could enter the new term?

It might finally just be too unmanageable here.

Sounds like a great game to play in the 3D world, however.