@spendius,
This looks a suitable game in which to introduce an intelligent refinement to the original rule of the thread starter: the one and only Spadie.
It is that a short explanation is provided with each entry of a connection between the seed word and the fruit word. Just taking any three letters out of six and using them in another six letter word for no particular reason is a task well with the competence of most 7 year olds. In other word games I usually only play when I have a solution which connects to the problem.
For example--I chose "guests" because if a person of delicacy and sensibility invites one to an eating then one is assuredly a guest.
As only eager aficionados of these methods of wasting time pleasantly, and one might say less devastatingly to Mother Earth than most ways of wasting time, enter such threads as these I feel sure that they would wish to feel themselves engaged in an activity above the level of junior school children.
This suggestion, if adopted by the sort of generous and tolerant natures which gravitate towards Trivia, allows for an exercise of wit and for an explanation of jokes, moral points and the like which might not be immediately apparent to all gamesters.
