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Thanks for the heads up. Enjoy your time away!
Completion Post: Exchange 1Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
10-6-2025
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8. **Asador Etxebarri** (Atxondo, Spain) 🇪🇸🔥 known for cooking everything on the grill over fire (: read a book with fire on the cover or the word fire in the title
fire on cover
🕹 🎮 👾 Week 40: October 6, 2025 ~ Wii Sports 👾 🎮 🕹
Wii Sports is a 2006 sports simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The 1.0 (pre-release) version of the game was released in North America along with the Wii on November 19, 2006, and the 1.1 version was released in Japan, Australia, Europe, and North America over the following months. It was included as a pack-in game with the console in all territories except Japan, making it the first sports game included with the launch of a Nintendo system since Mario's Tennis for the Virtual Boy in 1995. The game is available on its own as part of the Nintendo Selects collection of games.
Wii Sports is a collection of five sports simulations, which have been designed to demonstrate the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote. The five sports included are tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing. Players use the Wii Remote to mimic actions performed in real-life sports, such as swinging a tennis racket. The rules for each game are simplified to make them more accessible to new players. The game also features training and fitness modes that monitor players' progress in the sports.
Wii Sports was well-received by critics and audiences. It was a huge commercial success, selling 82 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling video game produced by Nintendo in the world. It has been featured on television in Wii commercials, news reports, and other programming. The game has become a popular means for social gatherings and competitions among players of varying ages.
In 2009, a sequel, Wii Sports Resort, was released. A high-definition remake of Wii Sports titled Wii Sports Club was released in 2013 for the Wii U. Another sequel, Nintendo Switch Sports, was released for the Nintendo Switch in 2022.
Wii Sports consists of five separate sports games—tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing—accessed from the main menu. The games use the motion sensor capabilities of the Wii Remote to control the player's dominant arm and/or the appropriate sports equipment it wields. Boxing utilizes both Wii Remote and Nunchuk gestures to control both of the player's arms. The player moves the remote in a similar manner to how the separate games are played in real life; for example, holding and swinging the Wii Remote like a golf club, baseball bat, tennis racket or bowling ball. Some aspects of the gameplay are computer controlled. In tennis, player movement is controlled by the game's AI, while the swinging of the racket is controlled by the player. Baseball consists of batting and pitching, with all of the fielding and base-running handled by the computer. Due to their turn-based nature, golf and bowling support hotseat multiplayer and can be played with just one Wii Remote that can be shared among players.
The in-game Players are taken from the Wii's Mii Channel, which allows the user to create a Mii (a customized avatar) that can be imported into games that support the feature. Wii Sports is the first Wii title to use this feature. Miis saved on the Wii will appear in the crowd during bowling games and as members of human-controlled teams in baseball. The non-player characters in the game were also created using the Mii Channel toolset. Miis created on one Wii can be transferred onto the internal memory of a Wii Remote for use on another Wii with different save data.
After a game, a player is awarded or penalized skill points based on performance relative to the computer's skill level, though some games do not calculate points during multiplayer sessions. The game keeps track of these points by charting them on a graph, as well as increasing the size of the crowd in Tennis and Boxing single-player modes. After obtaining 1000 skill points in a sport, a player is awarded a "pro" level, along with a cosmetic feature for their Mii in Bowling and Boxing. A Mii newly turned pro will receive a message on the Wii Message Board notifying them. Wii Sports also features a fitness test that calculates a player's fitness age (ranging from 20 to 80 years old, 20 being the best possible). The test gauges the player's performance in three randomly chosen challenges in each test from the training mode that have been played at least once, and can only be taken once a day per Mii. Calculating the fitness age takes into account a player's balance, speed, and stamina. Fitness age results are graphed over one, two, or three months, with daily results posted on the Wii Message Board. The challenges from the fitness test are taken from another mode in Wii Sports, the training mode. The training mode allows players to practice three challenges for each sport. In these challenges, players can earn medals by reaching certain scores. Medals range from bronze to platinum, bronze being the easiest, and platinum being the hardest.
Complete ONE of the following:
🕹 Read a book that has a "main menu," or Table of Contents.
🕹 Read a book that various ages of readers could enjoy.
🕹 Read a book with AI, or Artificial Intelligence.
🕹 Read a book where a character watches or participates in tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, or boxing.
Just a reminder posted by Berit:OK all tasks will be due on October 13 and that is the day of our next exchange.
The Spine Crackers Completion Post: Exchange 18. **Asador Etxebarri** (Atxondo, Spain) 🇪🇸🔥 known for cooking everything on the grill over fire (: read a book with fire on the cover or the word fire in the title
Anna:
Preeti: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Catsalive: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Michelle's Empty Nest: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Aneta:
Jill: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Audrey Jane:
Catsalive wrote: "5, 7, 8, 11, 12 are ok. No to Noma & Geranium."Agreed.
Preeti wrote: "Hi, Michelle. Please let me know if you would prefer to have your full handle on the badge."
This is PERFECT!!! Thanks again! 😊
Cool...I love it!! Thanks for sharing!
Checked In So FarAnna: ✅
Preeti: ✅
Catsalive: ✅
Michelle's Empty Nest: ✅
Aneta: ✅
Jill: ✅
Audrey Jane: ✅
Keri: ❓
So do we want to grab it before it's gone, too?
What are we going with for a name, team? A few of our likes are still available...It looks like we have the most votes for The Spine Crackers so far, followed by Gone with the Gin.
I like Prosecco and Prose and The Spine Crackers.
I'm still in with Voluptuous Virgos!
I'm still in!
Spin & Spell: Summer EditionWord #8:
Points Earned:
Plus 10 Bonus Completion Points
For a Total of: 50 Points
Spin & Spell: Summer EditionWord #14:
For the X, it just needs to appear somewhere in the title/series/name.
Points Earned:
Plus 10 Bonus Completion Points
For a Total of: 30 Points
Spin & Spell: Summer EditionWord #8:
