What's on our Mystical Minds...

     October 2009

CURRENT SITE

Everyday we gain new members to our league and we welcome you to Mystical Minds!!
Chances are you joined us by going to www.myleague.com/mystical_minds, our MyLeague site, in which case some of you may not know that we have our own custom site we use every day!  It makes for a more fun and personal experience and we invite you to come along and hang out with us there! 
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http://www.kioskorner.com/fallsite.htm
This address changes often throughout the year and you will be informed of the changes when they happen.
Have Fun!


LEAGUE HEADLINES


Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.orgCongratulations to TEX our September Host with the Most with 57 tours held!
Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.orgCongratulations to OFFICER our September Player of the Month with 20 tours won!

  Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.orgSpecial recognition to Dreams our runner up Host and Mac our runner up Player
for September!  Great job!

Free smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org  GAME ROOM HELP NEEDED!:  You will notice by browsing our Backdoors that we have lost quite a few games over the last couple of months because we didn't play them regularly.  
We need you to help us keep the game rooms we currently play in! 
Each game needs to be played in once a week or we run the risk of losing it.  We look to
our hosts to set the tours in those less frequently played games but we look to
our members to jump those tours for it to qualify.  If you see an oddball
tour and you have some time to play please do so in support of our great
league!  Let's work together to keep the fun rolling!


Free smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org FREE BUX!!  Sign in to http://www.myleague.com/mystical_minds each day to receive free bux!  As a free member you will receive 10 bux, Gold 20 bux, Platinum 40 bux and Diamond 60 bux!  Do this daily!

Vote for Mystical Minds and keep us at the top of the Top 100 Leagues!  Each day click the black Vote button, on the next page click "Enter RR best 100 Leagues" and that's it!  Your vote is cast!  Votes only count once per day, per IP addy.  The reset info is at the bottom of the page and updates votes every 15 minutes so for example if you cast your vote at 1:09 you can expect to see it sometime after 1:15 so have no fear your votes DO get counted!  Vote! Vote! Vote!

 


MONTHLY EVENTS

RECENT WINNERS

Tournament of Champions - Who/What/When/Where to be announced.  If you won any daily tournament in the month of May you will receive a special invite for this tour so check your emails!


Wednesday Winners Tour - Who/What/When/Where to be announced.  If you won any daily tournament on a Wednesday in the month of May you will receive a special invite for this tour so check your emails!
Battle of the Sexes - Who/What/When/Where to be announced.  We may be one big, happy Mystical family but on this night we are divided....who will be the better sex?  The Women........or the Men??
Staff vs. Members - Who/What/When/Where to be announced. The night where we get all the staff together in one place to go head to head against all our members for bragging rights! 


Game of the Month -  OCTOBER SPOOKY SLOTS.  Jump any tour in this chosen game and receive 1 point for every match won and 2 points for winning the final match.  Have the most points at the end of month and     win a prize TBA!

Congratulations to OFFICER our September Game of the Month winner in Spades!
 

Congratulations to GATOR our Battle of the Sexes winner for September hosted by KIO and DREAMS!

 
Congratulations to MAC, winner of the Mystical Minds Appreciation Tour hosted by TEX!
 

Congratulations to Five our Wednesday Winner for September hosted by LCD!


Congratulations to GAL our Tournament of Champions winner for September hosted by LCD!


OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS & HOLIDAYS

DID YOU KNOW?

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT  1st - TIFF

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 5th - VIX

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 6th - GRAMMI

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 8th - LCD

OCT 12th - CANADA THANKSGIVING

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 13th - BAIRD

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 15th - GATOR

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 16th - KITTY

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org OCT 25th - BROWN

OCT 31st - HALLOWEEN


 TOURNAMENT CALENDAR:  The tour calendar on our custom site is now set to automatically refresh itself every 10 minutes!  This has been done to ensure all of our hosts and players are kept current with the daily tours as they are added or if a set tours start time changes.  You can also refresh the tour calendar manually by right-clicking on it and selecting 'refresh' from the drop-down menu.  Never miss another tour again!

TAGBOARD:  Our tagboard has an auto refresh capability built right in to it!  In order for it to work however, you must make sure that your curser is not in any of the form fields...if it thinks you are typing a message the tagboard will not refresh.  I found that if I click my mouse elsewhere on the tagboard, the refresh is enabled.  I still suggest manually refreshing the tagboard periodically just in case.  Simply right-click on it and select 'refresh' from the drop-down menu.

POGO NEWS:  Pogo has new games coming soon such as Battleship, Puck's Peak, Flower Daze and an unnamed Clue hidden object game! They’re also going to make it so that we can give all kinds of goodies to our friends on Pogo, which should be lots of fun and they are adding tons of cool stuff that will be included in a Club Pogo subscription!


 


POINTERS

Addiction Solitaire Tips.....Uncovering yellow highlighted cards results in a buddy, a Free Move or Free Space power-up, or Token Gift. Free Move lets you swap two cards; Free Space lets you remove a king; and Token Gift gives you a choice of two players to send tokens to when you win the next game.  When you've collected 10 buddies you go to the bonus game, which is similar to the Pop Fu bonus game. If you click all the characters without making the volcano erupt, you get either extra tokens or one of the game's mini items.  Try to look ahead before making moves and try to not get your Kings locked into spots they can't be moved from.  You get three reshuffles per game. You're generally better off to save your power-ups until you've used all three reshuffles.  If you get close to winning a game and lose, use Undo and try using different moves.

Lottso Express...Gold cards are worth more points than silver cards, which are worth more than bronze. You'll earn more points by placing one or both bonus balls on a scratch card before scratching, by clearing out all cards on one side to get a Super Lottso card, or by clearing out all cards on the boardto get a Mega Lottso card.  You can get more balls to extend a game by achieving score goals along the way, and by placing balls in Extra squares.

Spades...Overbooks (winning more tricks than a team's combined bids) add a few extra points each, but if a team reaches ten overbooks they'll get a major deduction.  Never bid Nil if you have the Ace of Spades as it will win whatever trick it's played in.  If neither person on a team bids nil, it's generally safest to just bid as many tricks as you are fairly confident you can win based on your hand. Each person should then be sure to win as many tricks as they've bid, but be aware if your partner doesn't seem to be doing well: you may need to take up the slack.


KITTY LITTER THOUGHTS

WELCOME TO FALL! THE DAYS ARE GETTING SHORTER AND THE NIGHTES ARE COOLER ... WELL FOR SOME OF US .  THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR. LEAVES ARE CHANGING COLOR, AND  A DIFFERENT SMELL IN THE AIR...NO THATS NOT BEER BUT MAYBE THE APPLE CIDER FROM THE HARVEST. LOL
WE MAY BE DIGGING OUT OUR WINTER  JACKETS, BOOTS, SCARVES, GLOVES AND OH YEAH "WHERE IS THE MITTEN THAT THIS KITTEN LOST? I KNOW YOU MUST HAVE IT !"
 
TWO THINGS COME TO MIND FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. 

FIRST IS HALLOWEEN, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR HOLIDAYS SO IF YOU DO DRESS UP WHAT DOES YOUR COSTUME SAY ABOUT YOU? HERE ARE SOME FUN MEANINGS THAT I FOUND:

IF YOU ARE A WITCH: YOU AREN'T AFRAID TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT YOU THINK, EVEN IF YOU MAKE SOME ENEMIES IN THE PROCESS. THOSE WHO KNOW YOU WELL SAY YOU HAVE A SPELL-BINDING PERSONALITY.
IF YOU ARE AN ANGEL: SORRY. WE'RE NOT BUYING IT. IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN WINGS AND A HALO FOR YOU TO SEEM INNOCENT.
IF YOU ARE A DEVIL: YOU ARE NAUGHTY BY NATURE AND DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS. IT'S RARE THAT YOU DON'T GET YOUR WAY, AND IF YOU DON'T, YOU AREN'T AFRAID TO USE EXTREME MEASURES. BE CAREFUL, ITS' A TANGLED WEB YOU WEAVE.
IF YOU ARE A SUPERHERO: SOME MAY SAY YOU'RE CLOSE-MINDED. BUT YOU'RE ACTUALLY JUST SELF-ASSURED AND STRONG-WILLED. YOU'RE A LOYAL FRIEND, SOMEONE WHO IS WILLING TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR THEM. BECAUSE OF THIS, YOU ARE SOMEONE THAT OTHERS LOOK UP TO AND SEEK COMFORT IN. MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOU LOOK GOOD IN SPANDEX.
IF YOU ARE A GHOST: YOU'RE EITHER CHEAP, UNORIGINAL, OR LAZY. IF YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN THROW AN OLD WHITE SHEET OVER YOUR HEAD, CUT SLITS FOR THE EYEHOLES AND CALL IT A COSTUME, YOU'RE SADLY MISTAKEN. YOU'RE BETTER OFF STAYING AT HOME AND SAVING PEOPLE THE TEARS YOUR MIND-NUMBING PERSONALITY WOULD CAUSE THEM.

THESE WERE JUST A FEW COSTUMES THAT I THOUGHT WERE KINDA FUNNY.

 
THERE IS ALSO THE CANADIAN THANKSGIVING THIS MONTH ON OCT. 12TH. MANY AMERICANS AND OTHERS ASK WHY OURS IS THEN. THIS IS WHAT I FOUND OUT:
CANADA'S THANKSGIVING IS BASED ON A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST AND NOT ON THE PILGRIMS AND THE NEW WORLD LIKE THE UNITED STATES HOLIDAY. THE REASON IT OCCURS EARLIER THAN THE US THANKSGIVING IS THAT CANADA IS NORTH OF THE US AND BECAUSE OF THIS THE HARVEST SEASON OCCURS EARLIER DURING THE YEAR. SO, IT ONLY MAKES SENSE FOR CANADA TO CELEBRATE ITS FALL HARVEST DURING THEIR FALL AND HARVEST TIME.
 
SO MYSTICS HAVE A SAFE HALLOWEEN AND TO MY FELLOW CANADIANS... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  AND KNOW THAT NO MATTER WHAT MONTH WE ARE IN, THANK YOU TO ALL OUR HOSTS AND MEMBERS FOR MAKING THIS A GREAT LEAGUE !!!!!!!!!
 
UNTIL NEXT TIME MYSTICS THESE ARE MY KITTY LITTER THOUGHTS .

SUBMITTED BY TELLMEKITTY (SUE)

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