Hi there! I appreciate games like Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories and I thought that Japanese with its many homophones and kanjis could lead to interesting word games. I already know about shiritori and I have also seen a Scrabble-equivalent game named Mojipittan. Besides these two, do you know an…

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カタカナーシ is a game where you can’t use katakana words to describe a word or something. I haven’t played it yet, but it seems fun! [『カタカナーシ』説明動画]

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Seems fun! I have to try it one day!

Nice! This is a good example of the kind of game I’m looking for: I can’t see an equivalent in my first language.

Crosswords ? :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ve heard of a game where you say a word, and whoever is next starts the next word with the same ending character as the previous word. If you use a word that ends with ん you lose. That’s the only one I can think of and I’m not sure if there are any other rules to it.

[image] Wolfennights: That’s the only one I can think of and I’m not sure if there are any other rules to it. That’s shiritori, which OP mentioned. Other rules are it must be a noun, and you can’t repeat a word someone already said. There’s also optional house rules which cover what happens w…

My japanese teacher once brought a kind of card game: one set has all the hiragana on it and you spread it out on the table with the symbold visible. The other set has short poems on it where every word (at least I think it’s every word; might also just be the first word in the sentence) begins with…

That would be 歌がるた , based on the so-called “One Hundread Each” or 百人一首 collection: a bunch of poems that have been famous since at least the 12th century. There’s even a serious competitive scene (on a national level!) of this game, as well as a manga, anime, drama and live-action films.

Any Interesting Japanese Word Games?

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