Recommended for upper elementary grades! Exciting indoor recreation and games

Eiko Game

Eiko’s challenge run! A Tokyo University student faces off in the rhythm game that’s trending among high school girls!

Do you know the Eiko Game? It’s an easy, indoor recreation you can enjoy anywhere.

It’s a simple game where you keep associating words to a rhythm based on a prompt—but it actually makes you think more than you’d expect.

It’s fun like shiritori, but since you need a sense of rhythm too, it can get a little nerve‑racking.

It’s perfect for when you get together with friends.

You can play with any number of people, so it works for small or large groups.

Even University of Tokyo students have taken on the challenge, so why not give it a try? It’s sure to be a hit!

Game of Hell

I’ve accidentally invented a hellish game that anyone can play…

Prepare three boxes labeled “Who,” “Where,” and “What,” and put slips of paper with random words into each.

You draw from them in order to complete a sentence, but sometimes you end up with outrageous sentences.

Of course, you include the participants’ names in the “Who” box.

Then, the person who decides “this is the last draw” must actually carry out the action described by the sentence formed by the slip they draw.

It’s a hellish game where you don’t know who it will land on or what they’ll be made to do.

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Funny Face Match

Snow Man [Funny Face Match!?] 100-Yen Shop Board Game... Let’s do it!!

Don’t underestimate 100-yen shop games—these days there’s a wide variety, lots of fun ones, and they’re really popular.

Among them is the hit card game “Funny Face Match.” You lay out the orange cards, which show various expressions, where everyone can see them, and place the blue cards as a draw pile.

The dealer draws one blue card and holds it to their forehead so that everyone else can see it but they can’t.

Everyone then makes the funny face shown on that card.

The dealer watches and picks from the orange cards the face they think matches.

If the blue and orange card illustrations match, that’s correct: the dealer gets one card as a point, and another card is given as a point to the person who the dealer thinks best expressed the face.

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Rule Game

[Game for Elementary Schoolers to Enjoy] Pattern Game

If you’re looking for a brain-teasing game, this “Rule Game” is highly recommended! It’s a game where you uncover a hidden rule within a conversation and answer questions correctly based on it.

For example, the questioner holds up one finger and says, “This is 1,” then two fingers and says, “This is 2,” then three fingers and says, “This is 3.” Then they hold up one finger again and ask, “What’s this?” Naturally, everyone answers “1,” right? But the correct answer is “3.” In fact, the number of fingers is a decoy—the rule is determined by the word that follows “this” in Japanese.

If it’s followed by “ga,” the answer is 1; if followed by “wa,” the answer is 2; and if nothing follows, the correct answer is 3.

It’s easy to get fooled by the fingers!

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relay novel

SixTONES -Write a story- Tried writing a novel in relay style

Here’s an idea for a relay story with unexpected twists.

First, prepare a sketchbook for each participant and write the title and opening sentence of the novel you want to create.

Then pass your sketchbook to the person next to you and have them continue the story.

Keep circulating the sketchbooks, and when they make a full round, the fun is seeing what kind of novel it has become.

Try it with the aim of keeping the story aligned with the title.

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