Yorimichi GamesHanafuda & Japanese Games
Hanafuda, the Japanese flower cards, and other games that have been played in Japan for generations.
Hanafuda is a 48-card deck with twelve suits, one for each month of the year. Instead of numbers, the cards show flowers, animals and poems, and the goal is to collect cards that form scoring combinations called yaku.
Every game here explains the cards and the rules from scratch, so you do not need to read Japanese or know the cards before you play.
Hanafuda & Japanese Games (10)
FukuwaraiRemember a face, place six hidden features, then reveal your arrangement
Bozu Mekuri (Poet Card Game)Flip the Hyakunin Isshu poet cards: keep lords, monks cost you everything, princesses take the field
Daruma Otoshi (Japanese Tower Game)Knock the blocks out one by one with a mallet without dropping the daruma on top
Hachi-Hachi (Hanafuda)Three-player hanafuda with hand yaku, capture yaku and an 88-point par
Hana-Awase (Hanafuda)Three-player hanafuda: match cards by month and score card points plus yaku
Mahjong (Two-Player Riichi)Japanese riichi mahjong one-on-one vs the CPU, with hints, a yaku list and scoring practice
Ohajiki (Japanese Marble Flicking)Flick a flat glass piece into another to win it. Draw a line between them first
Shogi KuzushiSlide shogi pieces out of a pile with one finger, without a sound. Solo, vs CPU or 2 players
Smartball (Japanese Pinball)Pull the spring and shoot the ball through the pins into the holes on three boards
Koi-Koi (Hanafuda)Match cards by month, build yaku, then choose: koi-koi or stop?
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Amidakuji (Ladder Draw)Enter names and outcomes, add rungs together and trace each path (2–20 people)
Fishing GameHook toy fish at the fair tank, or cast, strike and reel in 26 real fish from Japan’s coasts, rivers and lakes
Gunjin Shogi (Military Shogi)Move hidden pieces, let the referee judge each battle and take the enemy HQ
Hasami ShogiSlide pieces like rooks and sandwich enemy pieces to capture them. First to 5 wins
Juroku MusashiOne General against sixteen soldiers in a classic Japanese hunt game
Mawari Shogi (Shogi Board Race)Toss four golds as dice, race around a shogi board and rise from pawn to king
Mini ShogiShogi on a tiny 4×5 board, plus 5x5 minishogi, with a move guide and hints
Oicho-Kabu (Japanese Card Game)A Japanese adding card game: get the last digit of your total close to 9 and beat the dealer
Shooting GalleryFire corks at a daruma, a kokeshi doll and boxes on a festival stall and knock them off the shelf
Tsume Shogi (Shogi Puzzles)Checkmate puzzles from Japanese chess: mate in 1, 3 and 5, plus a daily problem
Acchi Muite Hoi (Look That Way!)Win rock paper scissors to point, lose and look away – the Japanese “look that way” game
Shogi (Japanese Chess)Japanese chess where captured pieces come back. 3 CPU levels and a move guide