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  2. Kusoge - Wikipedia

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    The term kusogē is a portmanteau of kuso (クソ or 糞, lit. ' crap ') and gēmu (ゲーム, ' game '; a loanword from English).Though it is commonly attributed to illustrator Jun Miura [], and occasionally to Takahashi-Meijin of Hudson Soft, it is unclear when and by whom it was popularized – or whether a single source can be attributed in the first place.

  3. Shiritori - Wikipedia

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    A game of shiritori progressing from right to left. Shiritori (しりとり; 尻取り) is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word. No distinction is made between hiragana, katakana, and kanji. "Shiritori" literally means "taking the end" or "taking the rear".

  4. List of traditional Japanese games - Wikipedia

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    Two-ten-jack (Tsū-ten-jakku) - a Japanese trick-taking card game. Uta-garuta - a kind of karuta (another name: Hyakunin Isshu) Tile games.

  5. Kokkuri - Wikipedia

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    Kokkuri (こっくり, 狐狗狸) or Kokkuri-san (こっくりさん) is a Japanese game popular during the Meiji era that is also a form of divination, partially based on Western table-turning. The name kokkuri is an onomatopoeia meaning "to nod up and down", and refers to the movement of the actual kokkuri mechanism.

  6. Corner Game - Wikipedia

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    According to Japanese author Hirouji Matsuyama, however, the game is based on a Japanese story in which one of the five climbers was killed on a snowy mountain before a snowstorm broke out. The remaining four people carried his body to a hut without heating, and then the four people played the game in the house to summon the soul of the dead to ...

  7. Sugoroku - Wikipedia

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    Man and woman playing ban-sugoroku (from Hikone Screen) Sugoroku (雙六 or 双六) (literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: ban-sugoroku (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like backgammon, and e-sugoroku (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is similar to Western snakes and ladders.

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  9. Japanese mahjong - Wikipedia

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    Japanese mahjong (Japanese: 麻雀, Hepburn: Mājan), also known as riichi mahjong, is a variation of mahjong. While the basic rules to the game are retained, the variation features a unique set of rules such as riichi and the use of dora. The variant is one of a few styles where discarded tiles are ordered rather than placed in a disorganized ...