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Let's Play Shiritori!

Discussion in 'Fun and Games' started by BrokenRecord, Aug 15, 2015.

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    I find it very interesting that this game is Japanese, considering how that language is structured. Almost every word ends with a vowel, so you'll literally be getting the same words over and over again....
     
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    It's actually the last character of the word, which is more like a syllable than a letter. (Like if the word were 'anime', then the next person would name a word that starts with 'me'.)
     
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    Yep, it's the last 'syllable', rather than 'letter' (there are no letters in the same sense in Japanese).
    You won't be getting the same words over and over again at all. However, it will be harder than this English version, for which the game is poorly adaptable. It would be fun if we could do real shiritori, but of course there's the monolingual policy...

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