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Flatline Association Game #3: "Marcus Lawton"

A word starts in the center of the grid, words expand out of the middle into red squares, branching into 1-dimensional line style branches. The branches are always 45 words, the same as in Expansive Grid.

The red square and the corresponding branch's first word must be the same and in bold.

Game #2 started with Aquarium Development. The grid portion ended with MTR, Urban Jungle, John J. Pershing, and Cuban Missile Crisis. These words started line games which ended with Trophy, Bermuda, Hokkaido, and Ancient Egypt, respectively. An archive is available at [1].

Game #3's starting word, "Marcus Lawton", was chosen via Random Article.

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
A	Southern United States	Mississippi River	French Louisiana	French language	Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville	The Princess and the Frog	New Orleans
B	Lightnin' Hopkins	Force of nature	Sabine River	Cajun	Bayou Manchac	The Bayou	Bayou
C	History of African Americans in Texas	Hurricane Rita	Texas	Louisiana	Bayou Lafourche	"Blue Bayou"	Mound Bayou, Mississippi
D	African Americans in Atlanta	2005 Atlantic hurricane season	Hurricane Katrina	Mississippi River Delta	Structural evolution of the Louisiana gulf coast	Delta blues	Mississippi Delta
E	Afro-Caribbean people	Caribbean Sea	Gulf Loop Current	Gulf of Mexico	Mississippi Gulf Coast	Mississippi John Hurt	"Muddy Mississippi Line"
F	Negro American League	Southern League (baseball)	Mississippi	Biloxi, Mississippi	John Kennedy Toole	King John	Lineage
G	American League Central	American League	Mississippi Valley League	Gulfport, Mississippi	Jonathan Holder	Jonathan Goff	Linebacker
H	Chicago White Sox	Boston Red Sox	Major League Baseball	Marcus Lawton	New York Yankees	New York Giants	New York Jets
I	US Route 66	Los Angeles Dodgers	Carl Furillo	Outfielder	Babe Ruth	Mel Hein	Los Angeles Rams
J	St. Louis	St. Louis Cardinals	National League	Home run	Grand slam	Mel Stottlemyre	Mel Profit
K	St. Louis Browns	Bat-and-ball games	World Cricket League	Six (cricket)	Six sixes in an over	Sixties	Perversion for Profit
L	Union Station (St. Louis)	Bat and Ball railway station	Jiminy Cricket	Cave cricket	Hexapod	666	Antichrist
M	MetroLink (St. Louis)	Lord's tube station	Short form cricket	Beach cricket	Intertidal ecology	The Beast	Book of Revelation
N	1904 Summer Olympics	Sydney Olympic Park metro station	List of Australian rules footballers and cricketers	Beach football	Beach erosion	Beast from the East	Arcanine
O	Summer Olympic Games	Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics	Oceania Zonal Volleyball Association	Beach volleyball	Sand	Sandwyrm	Lycanroc

Branches

Branch 1: "Southern United States"

Southern United States, Parallel 36°30′ north, Parallel 54°40' north, Boundary dispute, Bir Tawil, Terra nullius, Antarctica, Marie Byrd Land, Lady Bird Johnson, Jill Biden, Jill Stein, Green party, Green thumb, Gardening, Back pain, Spinal disc herniation, Hernia, Inguinal canal, Abdomen, Abdominal pain, Gastrointestinal perforation, Sucking chest wound, Gunshot wound, Gun violence, Gunville, Shooting lodge, Hunting,

Word count is 27/45 as of word: Hunting.

Branch 2: "New Orleans"

New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana Voodoo, Louisiana French, Louisiana Creole, Haitian Creole, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Dominica,

Word count is 9/45 as of word: Dominica.

Branch 3: "Summer Olympic Games"

Summer Olympic Games, Monaco at the Olympics, No Medals, No Highway, Fatigue testing, Destructive testing, Crash test dummy, Crash Test Dummies, Winnipeg, Lake Winnipeg, Red River of the North, Cock o' the North, Cock-of-the-rock, Chicken, Tastes like chicken, If it looks like a duck, Inductive reasoning, Inductor, Conductor, Bus conductor, Bus driver, School bus,

Word count is 22/45 as of word: School bus.

Branch 4: "Lycanroc"

Lycanroc, Lycra, Spandex, Skin-tight garment, Elastic tension, Hubble tension, Hubble bubble (astronomy), Hubble Telescope, Edwin Hubble,

Word count is 9/45 as of word: Edwin Hubble.