An example chain for food would be: Soup - Peas - Sugar - Rice.
The game antakshari (ant means end, akshar means letter), played in India, Pakistan and Nepal also involves chaining, but with verses of movie songs (usually Bollywood songs).
In Russia, a game similar to the Word chain is called Words (Russian: слова), or "A Game of Cities" (Игра в города) if played using city and town names.
The most popular variant of the game is known as chengyu jielong (成語接龍), which involves four character idioms instead.
There is also a similar South Slavic game called kalodont, in which players continue the chain by beginning with last two letters of the previous word.