Merry Christmas Eve everyone! Today's topic is...

Gifts!

If you can get any gift you’ve been wanting to have, what would it be? Now here's the thing: it doesn’t have to be tangible (perhaps a gift of writing or art or cooking, etc).

I'd really like an artistic kind of gift myself. T-T Perhaps the gift of music to play the piano or the gift of art to draw... Of course I know that I just need to practice practice but I can wish anyway, can't I? :3;;; As for normal gifts, I normally like getting books. Just need someone to give me the gift of limitless time to read them all. XD How about you?

Your reward: Comment with your one choice card as an early Christmas gift! Can be either a character or a special card. :D

And the Advent Calendar is open until December 31st!

Today's topic is...

Holiday/Winter Traditions!

Let's talk about traditions! Now, I don't just mean Christmas or New Year's, but any other holidays as well like Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or maybe you have winter traditions in general. Or maybe you made one up along the way and it just stuck. Or maybe your tradition is to have no tradition at all! Do tell do tell. :3

For me, my family and I used to always put up our huge Christmas tree every year and get to decorate it and everything, making sure the lights work, and it was just a warm feeling having it in the living room. But then, when we moved, we stopped doing it because there's just no room, and it's not really the same. Still, fond memories though. <3 How about you?

Your reward: Since it's the 22nd, comment with your one choice character card and one choice special card that are numbered 02 and 20! So either a 02 character card and a 20 special card --OR-- a 20 character card and a 02 special card. :3

And the Advent Calendar is open until December 31st!

One week until Christmas! (And god my banner looks not-that-good...)

Today's topic is...

Favorite book/movie/TV show/etc!

Hello everyone, this is your sporadically/almost rarely here mod. How has real life been treating all of you? Good I hope. Anyway, I know at Colors TCG, we're all very focused on anime, manga, video games, and so on. But! Do you have any favorites outside of that, such as in RL that we sometimes get sucked back into now and again either against our will or otherwise? Books, movies, TV shows, etc. Maybe not your favorites if you can't think of them now, so maybe what you're into now?

For me, book-wise I'm going through the mystery/thriller books written by Tami Hoag, and I have this mental list of things I should/need to read sometime before the end of time. Movie-wise, I recently rewatched the X-Men movies because I bought X-Men: First Class... I was perhaps too excited that Logan was actually in there, even though it was for like 5 seconds. Yay~

Your reward: Comment with your one choice character card that's numbered 18! One character card of your choice that ends with 18! You know the drill. :3

And the Advent Calendar is open until December 31st!

Hello everyone, we're into December already, so hope you've been enjoying the Advent Calendar! Just to remind you that Crosswords 36 is ending next week! Thanks and enjoy yourselves this weekend!

Hello Colors. Apologies for my sudden... disappearance? ;; November just suddenly overwhelmed me with RL, and now I'm just finally able to get back on here and catch up on some things. Most importantly, Crosswords will be moving to Fridays now, which would be much better for me. Hopefully I'll be able to get things out (prizes, new rounds, etc.) in a much more timely manner. Again my apologies. OTL

The puzzle for this round was created by our very own Remus. :D It's another video game related puzzle, this time focusing on main characters of video games, and we have the decks of those characters~ (if that helps :3).

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, but now... it's Black Friday, so let's hit shopping hard! Yay!

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( Crosswords 36 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 35

1. Seymour Guado
2. Cloud of Darkness
3. Exdeath
4. Kefka Palazzo
5. Ultimecia
6. Zemus
7. Kuja
8. Sephiroth
9.Vayne Solidor
10. Galenth Dysley

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES (does not necessarily apply to player-created puzzles)

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends December 9th. I'll post a reminder next week!

Nope I have not forgotten the reminder this week. And I haven't forgotten about the prizes for last round either. Just... need to find some time. You think with the extra hour, there would be time! T-T My apologies.

Anyway, Crosswords 35 is closing next week! I'll catch up with things real soon, thanks!

Oh gosh, I just realized that I totally and completely forgot to put up a reminder last week about this game. My apologies to everyone! I think we're all reaching the peak of workload, almost at the breaking point and just trying to hang on until the holidays. Seems like it'll take forever, but! Let's keep going. T-T9

Anyway, the puzzle for this round was created by Mango, and it's focused on villains of the Final Fantasy series. Mango's hint was: I guess if this is ever used, a hint would be that these are all antagonists from the main games of the series. Meaning, none of them are from spin offs or sequels/prequels like Final Fantasy X-2 or Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. Yay!

Yay indeed. SO video gamers and Final Fantasy fans and of course, anyone and everyone else, have fun with this! Mango included the clues in the picture itself, so I thought that was a little handy. :D

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( Crosswords 35 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 34

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES (does not necessarily apply to player-created puzzles)

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends November 13th. I'll post a reminder next week! has ended!

Hello everyone. Very last minute post here with the next round, this time created by Meghan with the theme of Cats and Cat-Like Creatures! Though I'm more of a dog person (:3), I'm sure many of you will find this enjoyable. I hope so!

The semester is picking up for many of us I suspect, so let's hang in there!

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( Crosswords 34 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 33

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES (does not necessarily apply to player-created puzzles)

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends October 30th. I'll post a reminder next week! has ended!

Hello all~

Here is your weekly reminder that Crosswords 33 will be closing next week! Sorry about the delay in prizes for the last round; I'll definitely try to not make you wait so long! It's just that weekdays and Saturdays are pretty packed full of stuff... phew.

Have a wonderful week!

Hello everyone! We're into October already~ That means some of us are already well into our semester, so we're probably feeling the stress and pressure (I know I'm feeling it!) Anyway, enjoy yourself with a crossword puzzle, this time done by Hitomi!

Hitomi's chosen theme is characters with a birthmark, scar, tattoo, etc., which I think is awesome. *_* Hope you all enjoy this one~ :D

I'm real slow when it comes to Colors things lately, so I want to apologize for that first.

See you guys soon!

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( Crosswords 33 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 32

ACROSS:

1. BIRTHMARK
4. DANCE
6. BREAK
7. STRATEGY
9. PHONES
10. SEW

DOWN:

2. ASOBOT
3. VALKYRIA
5. DETECTIVE
8. ECCENTRIC

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES (does not necessarily apply to player-created puzzles)

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends October 16th. I'll post a reminder next week! has ended!

Hello everyone!

Just a friendly reminder that Crosswords 32 will be closing in a week's time. :D

Hope everyone is having/had a great weekend. Don't work too hard!

Hello everyone, sorry for being a day late once again. Yesterday was my grandma's birthday, so juggling between extended family got a little overwhelming phew. And I apologize that the puzzle last round was so... confusing and such. But we all learn from our mistakes, it's okay! If at first we don't succeed, try try again and all that good stuff. So let's try out this puzzle, created by John. :D

John's puzzle focuses on character mascots who are part of either games or services here at Colors TCG. You need to provide the deck names as answers for the puzzle, so they DO have a deck created at the TCG. :) Another fun and creative puzzle, so I hope this will turn out better!

Thanks everyone for your patience!

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( Crosswords 32 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 31

4. Onigiri
5. Three
7. Dara
9. Ten
10. Hetalia Axis Powers

1. Four
2. Gin sensei
3. Gray
6. Twenty two
8. Aisu

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES (does not necessarily apply to player-created puzzles)

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends October 2nd. I'll post a reminder next week! has ended!

Hello everyone~

I just got swamped with things to do and completely forgot to post a reminder yesterday about Crosswords, but then I decided it's a good thing because today, I thought of more things to mention.

1) Crosswords 31 is open until Sunday, September 18.

2) Since this is a player-created puzzle, and I didn't check it thoroughly like I should (bad mod, bad), I am going to be very lenient about the answers. Whether or not it fits into the puzzle exactly or not is fine, just give me your answers however you like. At least two clues, I'll be accepting two different answers per for. And I was unclear about the directions about creating puzzles, and I will be sure to mention next time to leave out any and all spaces and punctuation in your answers (learning from my mistakes). No one will be penalized; I don't want that.

3) Remember for Mikan-tan's game, there are a few things you need to include in your comment. Double check and make sure you have them all! :D

Have fun and enjoy yourselves!

Welcome to Colors League, Day 2, Game 2! I hope you all enjoyed working out the previous game yesterday. And here is today's game, brought to you by Mikan-tan.


Art by Wolfie, thanks so much!

Mikan-tan found an interesting crossword kind of puzzle today that was in the shape of a "C" (for "Colors")!


Click for full size.

There weren't any clues around, so she decided to fill it in herself, and she wants you to try it too with your own words! The only "rule" is that the words you use must have a kind of color/colors associated with them.

Here is her example:


Click for full size.

Cranberry = red
Yarn = various colors
Cotton = white
Calf = brown (she's thinking of a brown baby cow)
Flower = various colors
Rain = blue
Sweet Corn = yellow
Chocolates = brown

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Fill out the entire puzzle with your color justifications and earn 4 cards for you and one point for your team. Of course, you may NOT use the words that Mikan-tan used because that will make her sad. :(

This game closes on September 20th IS NOW CLOSED, and please do label the subject field of your comment with your team name/color to help us with the point counting. And if you forget to tell us which team you are from, your team will not receive points for your answer. T-T

You may still sign up for Colors League here! And this post has our current teams.

Good luck everyone!

Hello and Happy Labor Day to some of you. :D I apologize for failing and being a day late on posting this round's puzzle. It was a combination of "omg why am I so busy?" and thinking that today was Sunday... I know my mind is not with me lately. *scattered brain forever*

First of all though, I want to thank each and every one of you SO much for making this TCG enjoyable. And special awesome thanks for those of you who created a puzzle for this game (and therefore helping me out when I'm up to my eyeballs with work, to not have to stress out too much when I have to think about puzzles to create). Those of you who created your own puzzles, how did you feel about the process in going about and doing it? :3 I hope you had fun more than anything and goodness, there are so many awesome themes that you guys came up with. I love the creativity. OTL Maybe you guys -can- have my job. XD

Anyway, this round's puzzle was created by one of our TCG members, Lazuli. I decided to use this one because there are time sensitive clues (meaning it could change in the future and therefore the answer would change), and I don't want that to happen. Lazuli's puzzle is also related to the Colors TCG, so yay~ If you enjoyed Round 30's, here, have another. :D (Note too that the creator of a puzzle CAN still respond and answer their own puzzles. o/) I'm also ending this on Sunday like normal, so hopefully the one day won't make too much of a difference. If it does, I can always extend this a day (since it was my fault to begin with), and just post regularly again in two weeks.

Finally, let's get into the spirit of Colors because the Colors League will be starting soon! *cheers for Team Mikan-tan* Ahem. Gotta think of a game for that one. :3;;

[EDIT] *NOTE* I will be more flexible when it comes to answers during these player-created crossword puzzle rounds, since I was not the one who created these puzzles. Just input the answers as best as you can, and if it's close to the answers that were provided, then I'll accept them as correct.

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( Crosswords 31 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 30

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself. As pointed out, in this player-created puzzle, there are some punctuation and/or spaces that was left in. I apologize for that, so please do your best and trust your gut feelings when it comes to answers for this one. I'll be flexible.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends September 18th. I'll post a reminder on Sunday! has ended!

Hello everyone!

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. My last two weeks were pretty crazy, so glad I could take a little breather today (and to catch up with everything in the world). Also, how is everyone on the east coast doing with Hurricane Irene? A friend of mine is in New York, so I'm going a little klfjdkslfj. Hope everyone is okay! T-T

Anyway, just a reminder that Crosswords 30 is still open until next week, as is the "Make your own crossword puzzle!" portion of the round. :D I'll pass out everything next week to avoid confusion.

Thanks!

Happy Sunday and happy weekend to everyone! Sorry for the lateness for both this round and the prizes for last round, which I haven't even gotten around to yet. I've been working and tutoring up until yesterday and spent today cleaning up and getting prepared to start a week-long orientation tomorrow for the teaching credential program. But right now, all that is taken care of and I'm prepared finally. T-T9 Apologies for neglecting Colors, but once I settle into my semester, I hope I'll be more active as a player? *hopeful?* OTL

Anyway, a special round for round 30, and it comes in two parts (sorry for the long wall of text/post):

1) A fun little crossword puzzle like always, but this introduces some basic things about the TCG and unofficial cool things found at the trading comm in order to help some new members who might have joined recently-ish. For all your veteran players, this will be a snap.

2) Bolding this, so you don't miss this opportunity~ For this round, and this round only (so far), you have a chance to create a crossword puzzle to potentially be used in future rounds! Wait, wait, let me explain. Lucathia and I have talked about this way back when, and I decided for a special round (THIS special round), you will all have a chance to create a crossword puzzle like I do.

RULES:

a) It can be about anything anime/manga/game related, TCG-related, any theme, any little thing your creative mind can come up with.
b) There MUST be 10 words in the puzzle.
c) You MUST provide me in a comment below your clues, your blank puzzle (uploaded somewhere and with any graphic extension, i.e. .jpg, .png, etc) and your answers to the puzzle (filled in or text).
d) You MUST comment again to receive your reward as your original comment will remain screened for my eyes only. :3 (You can put something like "REWARD PLZ" in the second comment lol.) I can only reward you if it's a potentially usable puzzle! And if your puzzle gets posted in a future round, you'll already know the answers, so... "double prizes" as Lucathia said. XD

There are free online things you can use to create a crossword puzzle (and if you can find others or have your own, that's fine too!) If you have trouble finding any, here's some (disclaimer: I have not tried them all LOL):

- http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp
- http://new.puzzle-maker.com:8081/?
- http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html
- http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/
- http://www.theteacherscorner.net/printable-worksheets/make-your-own/crossword/crossword-puzzle-maker.php

If you have any questions or any need for clarification, drop me a comment too!

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( Crosswords 30 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 29

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends September 4th. I'll post a reminder in a week! has ended!

Hello everyone~

Getting to the real end of summer and the start of classes again hm? Well, I'm here to remind you that Crosswords 29 will be closing next week!

As for the inspiration of this round, he's behind the cut... (I don't even know if you want to see XD Might bring up some memories.)

( Who could it possibly be? )

Glad some of you are enjoying this round! Good luck!

Hello everyone~ Another two weeks have already gone by, so that means another round of Crosswords! We're already one week into August too... who here is going back to school soon? I am starting in a few weeks myself, so let's all do our best~ (In the meantime, I'm working too hard at work. XD;; *stressed out forever*)

For last week, I accepted "Fuyu no Lion" to the "Fuyu no Raion" answer. Just the romanization is different, and I understand that so no worries~ :3

Anyway, this week's theme is characters with blue hair. To offset the possible difficulty this round may have, I decided to only use characters that have a deck in our TCG, and the deck name is in the clues themselves. :D Good luck~

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( Crosswords 29 )

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ANSWERS

Crosswords 28

PRIZES

10 words correct - 5 cards
8 to 9 words correct - 4 cards
5 to 7 words correct - 3 cards
3 to 4 words correct - 2 cards
1 to 2 words correct - 1 card

NOTES

01 - You may fill out the crossword puzzle itself or give me text answers in a comment.
02 - Spaces and punctuation are omitted in the answers in the crossword puzzle itself.
03 - If it's a full Japanese name, the Japanese surname comes first.
04 - This round ends August 21st. I'll post a reminder in a week! has ended!

Hello everyone~

Glad to see that all of you are still around even though LJ has gone through (and still going through) some issues. I almost couldn't update my card post because of that but slowly catching up now.

Anyway, a reminder that Crosswords 28 is closing next week. Flowers and winter songs. Flowers and winter... flowers in winter?

( Sure, why not? )

The things you learn~