Basic Trope: A person playing a word game keeps finding/making words that fit what they're thinking about.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are playing Scrabble directly after Dracone has humiliated Bob in front of almost everyone in town. Bob spells "shame", "bullying" and "revenge."
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob are playing Scrabble directly after Dracone has humiliated Bob in front of almost everybody in town. Every word Bob spells is somehow related to the incident. He even tries to spell "Dracone" before Alice reminds him proper names aren't allowed as words in Scrabble.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob are playing Scrabble after Dracone humiliates Bob in front of almost everyone in town. Bob spells a lot of words that vaguely have to do with the event, such as "shrink" and "snake."
- Justified: While Dracone humiliates him, he curses Bob to forever be reminded of the incident. Naturally, this extends to Scrabble.
- Inverted: Bob and Alice are playing Scrabble directly after Dracone humiliates Bob in front of everyone. Bob spells words like "triumph", "helpful" and "friend."
- Subverted: Alice and Bob are playing Scrabble directly after Dracone has humiliated Bob in front of everyone. Bob spells "shame", "bullying", and "revenge"... but when Alice mentions it, Bob says it's because of a poster for an anti-bullying rally he saw as he walked home.
- Double Subverted: ...Or at least that's what he claims.
- Parodied: Bob finds the following words in this order: Embarrassed by evil people who hate me.
- Zigzagged: Alice and Bob play Scrabble after Bob was publicly humiliated by Dracone. Bob writes, "shame", "bullying", and "revenge", but he also writes some words that go against what he's thinking about, such as "friend", "triumph", and "helpful", in addition to some completely unrelated words such as "print", "theory", and "cat".
- Averted: Bob's words have nothing to do one way or another with what he's thinking about.
- Enforced: The writer wants a non-verbal way to express Bob's feelings.
- Lampshaded: "'Shame'? 'Revenge'? Bob, are you sure you don't want to talk about what happened?"
- Invoked: Bob looks for these words to express his feelings non-verbally, since he is too shy to talk about the incident out loud.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob deliberately avoids spelling words related to his thoughts.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Scrabble in fiction is always very Freudian".
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