JaLink! is a fast-paced party game of visual association and creative thinking. Players race to find connections between pairs of illustrated cards that match a given category—like "things that fly" or "famous duos." The game board holds 16 stacks of circular picture cards, and each round begins with a new category and a 90-second timer. As players spot...
User summary 日本語スペラ (Japanese Spella) is a Japanese word game. Players are dealt 17 tiles of Japanese hiragana characters. They take turns drawing and dicarding a tile until one player uses up all of their 18 characters forming several Japanese words and/or sentences. That player takes big points, while the others take small points according to the words...
Japanese: The Game is a language-learning card game. The cards in the game each have a Japanese word on the obverse. Players use these cards to build melds following a color pattern that forces the melds to be grammatically correct Japanese sentences. The game has solo, collaborative, and competitive modes to allow for play and learning in both individual...
This deck will help you become more fluent with words you’ll hear in Anime (and some manga) and in conversations about it, such as Fanatic, Space, Magic, Shut up, and Upperclassman. Each expansion to Japanese: The Game adds new vocabulary words, and thus the rules that go along with how each noun, verb, or particle can be placed to make a sentence. The...
Yōkai are the monsters of Japanese folklore. In America some people look out for Bigfoot. In Scandinavia some look out for trolls. In Japan there are scores and scores of different creatures, and they're becoming more popular in Western storytelling. The art for its 36 cards will be provided by none other than the incredible Matthew Meyer, creator of The...
This is a meld-building card game wherein the rules of play are the rules of Japanese syntax. The game has solo, collaborative, and competitive modes. The cards each have a Japanese word printed on them, and are color-coded by part of speech (e.g. all verbs are red). Each card has a point value, and playing the cards according to a color pattern results in...
This deck contains a selection of simple words from the various parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.) that will help you learn Tokyo-related and general vocabulary at the same time as Japanese sentence structure. The backgrounds of the cards are photographs of the city and the example sentences on each card be of a Tokyo-specific flavor. This is an...
Welcome to the fabulous world of short short story! The players will write a short short story all together. But it is not a difficult thing. Because we prepare a special notebook only for writing a strange short short story. The player can write the paragraph by just reading the previous one. Each player cannot read the whole story, so the story will be...
Jargon, is like Scrabble. The board features a familiar if slightly skewed grid for placing letter tiles. Every round, every turn of Jargon features a particular lingo or category: could be "Military" or "Travel" -- there's 40 in all. The twist is that you get points by making longer words, no matter what the letters AND you can use slang, abbreviations...