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  2. Japanese wordplay - Wikipedia

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    Japanese wordplay. Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba) [ 1 ] due to the language's large number of homographs (different ...

  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. Wordle - Wikipedia

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    Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of coloured tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all players attempting to ...

  5. Doodle Champion Island Games - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player. Doodle Champion Island Games is a 2021 role-playing browser game developed by Google in partnership with Studio 4°C. The game acted as an interactive Google Doodle in celebration of the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics as well as Japanese folklore and culture. The story follows Lucky the Calico Cat as ...

  6. Gomoku - Wikipedia

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    The earliest published book on gomoku that can be verified is the Gomoku Jōseki Collection (五石定磧集) in 1856. [8] The name "gomoku" is from the Japanese language, in which it is referred to as gomokunarabe (五目並べ). Go means five, moku is a counter word for pieces and narabe means line-up.

  7. Tracy Bennett - Wikipedia

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    She made adjustments to Wordle, which was a new acquisition by the Times from its creator, creating a variety of level-of-difficulty throughout a week's puzzles and varying the lexical and semantical types of words from day to day, adding and removing words from the database, limiting the inclusion of words that have too many identical four ...

  8. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    koto. [8] 琴, a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan, resembling a zither with 13 strings. makimono. [9] 巻物, a horizontal Japanese hand scroll, of ink-and-brush painting or calligraphy. manga. まんが or 漫画 listen ⓘ, (English IPA : [mæŋgɜː]) Japanese comics; refers to comics in general in Japanese. noh.

  9. Josh Wardle - Wikipedia

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    Occupation (s) Software engineer, artist, product manager. Known for. Wordle, Place (Reddit) Website. powerlanguage.co.uk. Josh Wardle is a Welsh software engineer who developed the viral web-based word game Wordle. The New York Times Company acquired Wordle from Wardle in late January 2022. [1] Wardle lives in Brooklyn, New York. [2][3]