Shiritori (しりとり) 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 bottom” as Japanese language can be written vertically.
Rules→http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiritori

I start with
アイスクリーム(=aisukurimu = ice cream)
This is what I wanna eat now＾＾

So someone has to start with む＝ム＝MU

my word: むずかしい

Also, for folks who haven’t played this, you can’t end a word with an ん sound (can you confirm, Na Na?). Great idea Na Na! This’ll be fun.

And I realized that only nouns are permitted as well. So I fail, haha.

Here’s my new word:
麦／むぎ (Wheat, Barley)

Let’s see:

技術／ぎじゅつ　(gijutsu: skill, craft, technique)

つなみ　（＾＾；　I just picked the only word i knew that started with　”つ”　And i dont know the right translation(If someone could tell me) I hope i did good　

みず (Cold water)

My wife always makes fun of me when we play this as I have a very short attention span…

ずれ (zure: gap)

@Joe: the translation for tsunami would be “Tidal Wave”, but these days pretty much everyone just calls them tsunami, no?

れ
冷(れい)房(ぼう)　REIBOU＝air conditioner (to make a room cool)

*you may also wanna memorize the word↓
(暖(だん)房(ぼう)　DANBOU=heater (to make a room warm))　

Koichi, Yes!
only noun^^
I played this game soooooooo many times when I was kid, though~

Joe^^
Excellent!

Juan
Wow,
This is the first time to hear ずれ、when I play Shiritori^^
Thank you for the translation of tsunami♪

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Basic rules
Two or more people take turns to play.
Only nouns are permitted.
A player who plays a word ending in the mora N (ん) loses the game, as no word begins with that character.
Words may not be repeated.
Phrases connected by no (の) are permitted, but only in those cases where the phrase is sufficiently fossilized to be considered a “word”.
Example: sakura (さくら)→ rajio (ラジオ)→ onigiri (おにぎり)→ risu (りす)→ sumou (すもう) → udon (うどん)

The player who played the word udon lost this game.
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Oh, I see now. So players take turns to play. Hmm, does that mean that I should wait until after Koichi takes his next turn before I add another word?

Juan,
In this case, turns don’t matter!

◆Remember◆
Words CANNOT be repeated.

Cool :-)

う

浮世／うきよ (ukiyo: fleeting/transient life)

PS: thought about using uchi (house), but that was too obvious ;-)

ヨークシャ(ー)テリア(yokushateria)Yorkshire Terrier
look how cute they are!
http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=E383A8E383BCE382AFE382B7E383A3E38386E383AAE382A2&ei=UTF-8

Mine is sleeping beside me now…. so cute^^ めっちゃ可愛い～♪

あたま (head)

祭り　（まつり:matsuri） as in festival. I was just reading about the Japan Blog Matsuri so it was the first thing to come to mind.

次はなにかな？

Very interesting game, enjoy it everyone!

Speaking of festivals, in the month of August the city of Iida in Nagano celebrated their “Apple Festival”, so the next word will be:

リンゴ (ringo: apple) as in the fruit, not the computer company ;-)

Lets see…

ごがつ – May

(See Koichi, I pay attention :-D )

アイスクリーム→むぎ→ぎじゅつ→つなみ→みず→ずれ→れいぼう→
うきよ→ヨークシャ(ー)テリア→あたま→まつり→りんご→ごがつ
→つばさ（翼）＝wing(s)

アイスクリーム→むぎ→ぎじゅつ→つなみ→みず→ずれ→れいぼう→
うきよ→ヨークシャ(ー)テリア→あたま→まつり→りんご→ごがつ
→つばさ→さぎ（鷺）= heron

アイスクリーム→むぎ→ぎじゅつ→つなみ→みず→ずれ→れいぼう→
うきよ→ヨークシャ(ー)テリア→あたま→まつり→りんご→ごがつ
→つばさ→さぎ→ぎんこう(銀行)bank

こうばん
(I’m making myself do this off the top of my head, dredging up words instead of using a dictionary!~what I mean to say is “police box.”)

Hey Susan, welcome to our game :), Just one thing you can’t use an ん at the end, we just playing last letter, not last 2. I feel your pain about the not using a dictionary, sadly though, I have only been studying for about a month or so, so my vocab is very limited.

アイスクリーム→むぎ→ぎじゅつ→つなみ→みず→ずれ→れいぼう→
うきよ→ヨークシャ(ー)テリア→あたま→まつり→りんご→ごがつ
→つばさ→さぎ→ぎんこう→うなぎ (eel)

Oops! And I even read the instructions for the game and still goofed! Looks like I’m out for this round!

nahh, honest mistake, I’m sure everyone will let it slide this time :)

ぎ　again!?

アイスクリーム→むぎ→ぎじゅつ→つなみ→みず→ずれ→れいぼう→
うきよ→ヨークシャ(ー)テリア→あたま→まつり→りんご→ごがつ
→つばさ→さぎ→ぎんこう→うなぎ→ぎんが(銀河)galaxy

Susan♪
You know a lot of Japanese words…
だから、また参加してね♪