Each of us was, in turn, to say a word that would have some connection to the other words already spoken,...
Minnemooseus, in message 13 writes:
If, say word two has no connection to word one, how is word three supposed to have a connection to words one AND two?
I now presume that the seven people would continue to give words (elements?) until someone gave an invalid word (or they could run out of elements). Then what I said above would kick in - the next person would be unable to give a word that has a connection to ALL the words. Therefore, whomever said "Bismuth" would be the merely smart person.
I have no idea what "Bismuth" is the odd word out.
Moose