The 'Shroom:Issue 204/Fun Stuff

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Director's Notes

Written by: Roserade (talk)

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Greetings, beautiful 'Shroom readers! Welcome into the Fun Stuff office, where we're taking our transition into spring! A season of flowers and blooming... naturally, I'm quite the fan. I hope you all have your own phenomenal springtime, even if the pollen doesn't treat you kindly. With all the sun I've been seeing recently, I've been feeling rejuvenated! Even with finals week going on!! Haha help!!!

It's the Fun Stuff team you know and love this month, and they've got plenty of great sections for you to read. Make sure to give them all a shot, and feel free to reach out to some of your favorite writers and let them know what they're doing right! A little positivity is a great way to start off a new season.

Take care everyone, and have a great read! Time to go back to my last final oh boy!!!!

Section of the Month

Congratulations to FunkyK38 (talk) for another first place, and extra kudos to our follow-up placers, Ninja Squid (talk), Shoey (talk), and Waluigi Time (talk)! Make sure to vote for your favorites this month, and consider submitting to the Poochy's Picks sheet!

FUN STUFF SECTION OF THE MONTH
Place Section Votes % Writer
1st Where in the Marioverse is Carmen Sandiego? 12 46.15% FunkyK38 (talk)
2nd It's aMAZEing 4 15.38% Ninja Squid (talk)
3rd Hiding Koopa 3 11.54% Waluigi Time (talk)
3rd Trivia 3 11.54% Shoey (talk)

Games and activities
Anagrams for you and origa-me!
All's fair in war and robots!
How well do you know your recent games?
Lawnmower? I hardly know her!
More connections for March!

Anagrams

Written by: BBQ Turtle (talk)

Hey all, welcome to March's edition of anagrams. This month, I've folded up a wad of Paper Mario: The Origami King anagrams for you all to have a go at solving- hopefully you make the papercut and they're a crease of cake! If you'd like to suggest a theme, or even a Mario-related anagram you've come up with, for a future issue, please let me know on my talk page or in a PM to me on the forums, I'd be sure to work them into an upcoming section. And with that, I'll let you get printer these anagrams!

How it works...
Basically, this puzzle consists of solving the anagrams. Each month has a specific theme, which will give you a clue about what sort of words or phrases the anagrams will be. I've also included the boxes that the anagrams will fit into, so you'll be able to tell how many words it will solve to be and how many letters will be in each word, which should give you a hand too. You'll also notice that within each set of boxes, one of the squares are yellow. As you solve each anagram, note down the letter which appears in the yellow squares, and if you can solve all of the anagrams, you'll also get a bonus anagram to solve from completing all of the others. I've included the letter configuration for this one at the bottom too, just to give you an extra helping hand. Best of luck!

1. DO WIG OWNERSHIPS

2. INK GOLLY

3. ASP GARNISH

4. UNION AT TUNA MUM

5. ELEVENTH MULL A RAT

6. FACTORING MARS AIM

7. RUB BARN BED

8. PROOFREAD TOSS

9. MONSIEUR RAP

10. LOPE HUNCH

11. I ADD MANDOLINS

12. MULL WEAVER TALENT

13. HELLO TO TOMBSTONES

Bonus anagram:

Answers

Word Search

Written by: Shoey (talk)

Hello and welcome to another exciting Word Search. So I was running the numbers on one of my other sections What's in a Campaign?, a Pipe Plaza section where I cover robots from the hit show Robot Wars (shameless plug). One thing I noticed was the two most neglected series were the first and second wars. While I think Series 2 has potential for future sections, Series 1 sadly doesn't because of the different format Series 1 has where each robot only has a max of three fights and the grand final was dominated by a robot I already covered. So I decided to cover a few Series 1 in a word search, since I probably won't get the chance again. So here's a word search on a selection of twelve Series 1 robots! Words can be found vertically, horizontally, diagonally, and backwards! As always have fun and stay safe!

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Crossword

Written by: MarioMorty (talk)

Greetings everyone in this lovely month of March. This is Crosswords, brought to you by me, MarioMorty. This month's theme has all the clues related to games that have or will be released from 2020-2024. Not much else to say, so see everyone in April!

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Answers

Hiding Koopa

Written by: Waluigi Time (talk)

Hello there, 'Shroom readers! It's March, which means it's the start of spring (depending on where you live and if the weather isn't pretending it's still winter), which means it's time to start taking care of the lawn! But instead of doing it in real life, because that's boring and a lot of work, we're going to do it virtually in what's sure to be the hit game of 2024, Lawn Mowing Simulator, now available on Nintendo Switch! Yes, this is actually a thing that I found on Nintendo's website, and I couldn't live with myself if I didn't use it for Hiding Koopa because it's funny. Five Koopas are hiding in the soon to be mowed landscape, can you find them all? (Beware of allergies...)

Koopa Troopa from Mario Kart 8.
WANTED!
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Answer

Thanks for playing! Did you find them all?

Connections

Written by: Roserade (talk)

Greetings, beautiful 'Shroom readers! Welcome to the March 2024 edition of Connections! Spring cleaning is upon us, and I've gotta organize these terms into their right categories! Do you want to lend me a hand?

How it works:
Below is a table of sixteen different words, all of them with some sort of connection to the Mario series. These words correlate in sets of four, and it's up to you to figure out which words belong to a set! Work through the grid and decide which words are connected. Once you think you have the answer, check against the provided answers. If you get stuck along the way, feel free to utilize the clues. There's only one correct answer, so be on the lookout for words that feel like they might fit in more than one category. Good luck!

Topsy Lunge Plane Ninja
Super Cookie Mermaid Spray
Cloud Rip Van Paper Safari
Story Flopsy Mighty Detective
Clue 1
Clue 2
Clue 3
Answer

How did you do? Did you figure out the connections? Thanks for playing!

Where in the Marioverse is Carmen Sandiego?

Written by: FunkyK38 (talk)

HOW TO PLAY
No one will be getting inside that door!

“The Shiny Stone is missing, gumshoe, and I’m not talking about the ones from Pokémon. Mario has reported that the Shiny Stone, an item from Super Mario RPG and its recent remaster, has gone missing, and he suspects that it has been stolen by one of Carmen’s henchmen. The Shiny Stone, while not a plot-critical item, is key to unlocking (literally) one of the more famous boss battles in this game: Culex, the crystal-wielding superboss. Without this stone, Mario and his party cannot open the door to Culex’s arena, and the battle cannot be fought at all. Denying access to a fan-favorite superboss is a recipe for disaster, gumshoe, so we have to get to work finding that rock! Intel coming in says that one of Carmen’s high-up crooks is behind this caper, a master of disguise rivalling the woman in red herself. This one will be slippery, gumshoe, but we need to get the stone back and solve this case!”

Crime Scene

The Crime

Super Mario RPG’s Shiny Stone has been stolen! Find that rock and stop the crook!

CLUE 1

“We’re having power outage issues right now… perhaps someone has excess appliances plugged in?”

CLUE 2

“It’s so difficult getting ninjas to check out on time… we don’t do late night check-outs!”

CLUE 3

“I don’t think you’ll have to worry about getting a reservation for this game.”

Location 2

CORRECT ANSWER

Roy's Hardbrick Hotel from Hotel Mario HMRoysHotelStage1.png

CLUE 1

“I caught her staring at the vines. Like she’d never seen vines that funnel the energy upwards before- wait, YOU’VE never seen that either?”

CLUE 2

“This location was featured in two games in the series, one of them being a crossover.”

CLUE 3

“I can’t believe we landed just to have a thief run through! Do you know how much power it takes to get this place in the sky?”

Location 3

CORRECT ANSWER

Neo Bowser's Castle from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Neo Bowser Castle

CLUE 1

“She ran through the fake exit. I think the poison and fungus were overwhelming her. You’ll be able to catch her if you hurry!”

CLUE 2

“Don’t slip on the floor! Bounce! You have to hurry through, you only have a minute and a half!”

CLUE 3

“You’ll have to use flower power to get through this game, which made the flowery princess a playable character.”


CASE CLOSED

Trivia

Written by: Shoey (talk)

Late night Trivia! Late Night Trivia! Did you know?

  1. That Retro Studious once worked on a Mario Volleyball game?
  2. That Banjo Pilot originally started out as Diddy Kong Pilot?
  3. That according to Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Professor E. Gadd once studied Thwomps and not Ghosts?
  4. That during the N64 and most of the Gamecube era Thwomps were redesigned from gray spiky blocks to blue spikeless blocks?
  5. That Samuel Chase is the only justice of the United States Supreme Court to have ever been impeached?
  6. That Buzzy Beetles and Koopa Paratroopas are the only enemies from Super Mario Bros. to never appear in a 3D platformer?
  7. That the only thing Wario loves more the money is his pet chicken, Hen?
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