The time has come to start a new thread for our favorite adventure guessing game. (If you wish to see the last page of the previous Name the Game thread, click here.)

These are the rules:

One person (hereinafter known as "It") posts a clue to an adventure game. The clue can be simple or difficult or creative or dastardly or even poetic. Clues can be information about characters or events or puzzles or more (though we do try to stay away from outright puzzle spoilers).

When thinking up clues, a good place to look for possible ideas is the GameBoomers collection of adventure walkthroughs (plenty of inspiration there). You can also look up adventure game titles and information in the PAGODA Game Database for more ideas.

Everyone who wishes to participate, posts the name of the game that best matches the clue. If no one has guessed after a few attempts, "It" gives another clue. The person who guesses correctly then becomes "It" and posts a clue for a different game, and so on.

Sometimes people who think they've guessed the game but don't wish to name it will also post a clue -- please do this only if "It," along with the first clue, posts "Extra Clues are Welcome (ECAW)." Of course, keep in mind that sometimes the "Extra Clues" may be "red herrings."

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I have just correctly guessed that the answer to Bernard's clues is: Broken Sword 3, so I am IT and will soon be posting a new clue.

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(For those interested, the current thread titles are listed below.)

Name the Game Amusement
Name the Game Diversion
Name the Game Variety
Name the Game Excitement
Name the Game Novelty
Name the Game Trifle
Name the Game Utensils
Name the Game Recreation
Name the Game Entertainment

The following clues are word association clues. Each word clue is commonly associated with another word that is part of the title of an adventure game.

Clue #1 -- _____Force

Police Quest?

Good idea, but no.

An association for another word in the title:

Clue #2 --_____ Celebration

I'm thinking that Dark Fall might fit those two clues.

This one's older than Dark Fall.

Clue #3: Answer to Clue #1 -- ________ Convention

I see I've made this too difficult.

Clue # 4 -- something else in the title. It's not a word, but actually a number.

December the _________.

Okay, I'm not good at this word association clue-giving thing.

The title can be found somewhere on this page. All the previous clues are still good. Well, not effective-good, just good in terms of they still apply.

Hmm, the only help I found by going to the above link was that the game's title will begin with an "S", I think.

Star Trek 25th Anniversary?

Sierramindy -- you're correct, it begins with an "S."

That's it zook!

Thanks Becky

I'll stick with the word association theme. For a word in the title, find a word that goes with this word-

Lost

"lost art?"

Art of Murder?

Paradise?

You got it Bernard Good thing too. I wasn't sure what I was going to do for another clue since it was a one word title.

'Gangsta's' would fit nice Zook.
A new text adventure coming up, find the clues!

You're driving in your car to meet with your new employer. It's a beautiful day, the sky is blue and you're driving through a deserted landscape. The CD player is playing your favourite tunes and you feel great. Suddenly a shadow overcasts the car and something that looks like a lightning bolt strikes it. The motor stalls and you manage to steer the car to the side of the road. After trying to restart the engine a couple of times you realize that's not going to work.

Nancy Drew: Haunting of Castle Malloy?

> exit car & walk to garage.

Sorry Lilo.

You take your cell phone and the car keys and step out of the car. Strange, there's not one cloud in the sky, the air is laden with electricity, the hairs on your arm are raised! Looking around you see no garage or any other building. The road is leading from north to south and there's a dirt road heading westward. A pole with the remains of a weathered sign can be seen at the crossing.

>climb pole

Walking towards the pole you see that on the sign only a few letters are still readable: ".air .....d". Climbing the pole won't help, it's merely 3 feet high. There's a breeze coming from the west, it smells like a sea breeze!

Is it Lighthouse: The Dark Being?

Sorry Kes, not the right answer but chin up, there are a lot more clues waiting to be found.

I'm wondering whether it's Overclocked? - I'm sort of hoping it's not the right answer as I don't have a clue up my sleeve - or anywhere else!

Oh, you naughty girl! Overclocked it's not.