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Gesture Game57rank/position

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A gesture game you often see on variety shows.

It doesn’t require any props—just your body—so it’s easy to enjoy and even gives you a bit of exercise.

As you know, the way it works is that the performer conveys the prompt to the participants using only body movements.

There are many ways to express it: capturing distinctive features, imitating actions, and highlighting key points of expression.

The performer thinks about how to communicate and how to represent the prompt through movement.

Participants, watching and wondering what it could be, focus on the motions and make associations, so it can also be expected to have brain-training benefits.

Give it a try!

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Common Hiragana Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz58rank/position

[Today's Recreation] “Thursday, March 30: An easy indoor activity using a whiteboard — ‘Quiz’”

Let me introduce a common-hiragana fill-in-the-blank quiz that’s also effective as brain training.

In these puzzles, there are multiple blanks within a word or phrase, and you fill all the blanks with the same hiragana character.

For example, in “か○○○き,” all the blanks would be filled with “た.” One of the big attractions is that some problems can have multiple correct answers, and you can adjust the difficulty by increasing the number of letters.

Start with around four characters and gradually increase the number of blanks! It also sounds fun to line up multiple words and fill them all with the same hiragana character.

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Seasonal Ingredients Quiz59rank/position

Enjoy together as a family! Seasonal ingredients quiz

This is a quiz about learning the seasonality of ingredients—foods that taste especially good in spring or in March.

Precisely because we live in a time when many ingredients are available year-round, let’s use this quiz to cultivate gratitude and affection for our food.

You could ask whether an ingredient is in season in March, or make it a rearrangement puzzle using seasonal ingredients as hints—both formats sound fun.

With foods we eat without much thought, we often miss their peak season.

How about inviting people to enjoy those discoveries?

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kappamaki

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Scissors that have become dull can be revived by cutting something found in a household kitchen. What is that “something?”60rank/position

Scissors are stationery that everyone uses daily, but their sharpness inevitably dulls over time.

However, even dulled scissors can be easily revived just by cutting a common household item.

The hint is something from the kitchen: it’s made of metal, yet it can be cut with scissors—this should make it clear.

The answer is aluminum foil.

It’s said that a phenomenon occurs where the aluminum compensates for the worn parts of the scissors.

Since the effect is only temporary, it’s good to remember that properly sharpening them with tools is a more reliable solution.

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What animal is represented by “chi-tsu-te-to?”61rank/position

Next, let me share a riddle about animals.

What animal is represented by “chi-tsu-te-to”? Pay attention to the sequence “chi-tsu-te-to.” If you add one character, it should follow the standard gojūon order, right? The answer is “tanuki” (raccoon dog).

The “ta” is missing from the ta-row sequence “ta-chi-tsu-te-to,” so the animal is “tanuki.” It feels satisfying once you get it, doesn’t it? Tanuki are small animals with a cute appearance and have long been familiar figures in folktales and old stories.

Some of you may have even seen a wild tanuki before.

Autumn is when delicious new rice is harvested. What is the most widely produced rice variety in Japan?62rank/position

Autumn is also the rice harvest season.

So here’s a question: Which rice variety is produced the most in Japan? The correct answer is Koshihikari.

It’s a famous variety that everyone knows.

There are three main reasons for this.

First, it’s resistant to cold.

Second, it’s delicious and highly popular.

Third, it’s suitable for long-term storage.

However, although Koshihikari may seem perfect, it actually has a weakness: it’s vulnerable to wind and disease.

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What kind of elephant can you eat, even though it’s an elephant?63rank/position

It’s a classic type of riddle where you focus on the sound of a word and follow words that contain that sound according to the puzzle’s conditions.

Since the animal “elephant” (zou) isn’t associated with eating, it helps to imagine a food that contains the sound “zou.” The fact that there are only a few foods with that “zou” sound is also a key point, and narrowing down the answer gives your brain a good workout.

It’s a puzzle that brings to mind the simple food name that includes the word “zou,” namely ozōni (New Year’s soup), as the answer.

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