.......Common.

......tern

Colony....

Ant..........

.....eater

Is that allowed?  One word?

Eater......   Meat.

Ball       ............................

Crystal...

Crystal......

Beat ya to it 😀

Eater is one word not sure what the problem is  with my last contribution?

We have crystal twice by the way but moving on

.......maze

Yep Crystal was placed twice at the same time!  Within one minute by 2 posters, not avoidable!

Anteater is one word, so splits are not really allowed.  😶

Intricate...

Just to be clear, the thread is "One Word", anteater is all one word not two. Although when Gary started the thread 12 years ago, he didn't specify any "rules", we've generally accepted that splitting a word isn't strictly playing the game. 

We have "crystal" twice because two great minds thought alike but one was quicker than the other.

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@cee-dee wrote:

Just to be clear, the thread is "One Word", anteater is all one word not two. Although when Gary started the thread 12 years ago, he didn't specify any "rules", we've generally accepted that splitting a word isn't strictly playing the game. 

We have "crystal" twice because two great minds thought alike but one was quicker than the other.

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One great mind quicker than other....  Cee dee  we could fall out here.....😆 x

Ha ha, keep still, don't wriggle about so much and you won't fall out (of bed) 😀😁

Nearly spilt my wine!  This is really going off track!

What was the last word ?? 🤔

Wine? No wonder you laughed? 😀

In certain cases it is one word i.e. when referring to the animal known as an anteater. But some animals eat ants. The same rule applies to meateater/ meat eater!

Back to the game I did put 

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looking back at some of the replies back in 2012 when this first started it was not limited to just ONE WORD or any specific rules!