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Japanese Scrabble

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webbofthefuture4058
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Japanese Scrabble

Postby webbofthefuture4058 » March 1st, 2013 2:54 am

Not sure if this has already been given as an idea, so I am sorry if it's already been suggested.
I think a Japanese version of Scrabble in both romaji and Kana would be a very useful tool. If anyone has any ideas on this or know where I might be able to find a game like that, either video game or board game. Thank you in advance for any help. :)

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby community.japanese » March 1st, 2013 1:36 pm

webbofthefuture4058-san,
kon'nichiwa! :D
I agree with you; those games with Japanese words are definitely fun and educative.
I'm not too sure if there's any roma-ji game for that, but I'm sure there're some words-related games
with hiragana with/without kanji.
If you don't have problem browsing sites in Japanese, search under 文字 and ゲーム (or パズル).
Hope it helps :wink:

Natsuko(奈津子),
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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby webbofthefuture4058 » March 1st, 2013 8:58 pm

Thank you for replying. I'll try those searches. :)

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby community.japanese » March 2nd, 2013 2:06 pm

webbofthefuture4058-san,
hope you can find something interesting! :wink:

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby cloa513ch2629 » June 2nd, 2013 10:14 am

I made a basic Japanese Scrabble- its a work in progress- remember to enter your number of players (can be 1) then click the first page.

A better version will be available soon.


http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/19291

Unfortunately the game engine has poor support for Kana or Kanji so that will be later.

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby team.relationships » June 3rd, 2013 5:46 am

Kon'nichiwa, cloa513ch2629-san !

Thank you a lot for sharing your game!
What a nice job!
Looking forward to using the kana version too!

Melanie
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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby cloa513ch2629 » June 5th, 2013 4:24 am

If you could help by making 32 by 32 pixel images with both transparent and white backgrounds with both hiragana and katakana such as ウ/う with text size 14 pixels in the centre and put them all in JPG format that would help a lot. I am mostly trying to get scoring working at the moment and perhaps drawing a Kanji.

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby Hermionebritt3764 » June 9th, 2013 1:56 pm

hey i would greatly appreciate the master list of letters(characters) and their values
so for example
a 1
i 1
u 1
e 1
o 1
ma 2
myu 10
sha 2

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby cloa513ch2629 » June 10th, 2013 3:54 am

Thanks if you want to do values but the values can be done by within the software- it supports printing alphanumeric text.
And I can do distributions using the programming.

I just need the complete hiragana/ (katakana- if you wish) plus chisai っ - One set of kana.

I picked some values- they could change depending on what people think from the playing the game. Have you tried

the game
http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/19519

and Kanji drawing
http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/19441

What did you think?

I just picked distributions giving it two if it forms the main part of 動詞 Japanese verbs - given the very limited description of Japanese language.

Here is the list anyway.
a 1
a 1
e 1
e 1
i 1
i 1
o 1
o 1
u 1
u 1
ka 1
ka 1
ke 1
ke 1
ki 1
ki 1
ku 1
ku 1
ko 1
ko 1
sa 1
sa 1
shi 1
shi 1
su 1
su 1
so 1
so 1
su 1
su 1
ta 1
ta 1
te 1
te 1
chi 1
chi 1
to 1
to 1
tsu 1
tsu 1
ra 1
ra 1
re 1
re 1
ri 1
ri 1
ro 1
ro 1
ru 1
ru 1
da 2
de 2
ji 2
do 2
zu 2
za 2
ze 2
zo 2
na 2
ne 2
ni 2
no 2
nu 2
ja 10
ju 10
jo 5
wo 20
n 5
sha 2
shu 2
sho 2
ya 2
yu 2
yo 2
ha 2
hi 2
fu 2
he 2
ho 2
ba 1
ba 1
bu 1
bu 1
bi 1
bi 1
bo 1
bo 1
be 1
be 1
pa 2
pi 2
pu 2
pe 2
po 2
ma 2
mi 2
mu 2
me 2
mo 2
mya 10
myu 10
myo 10
kya 10
kyu 10
kyo 10
nya 10
nyu 10
nyo 10
bya 10
byu 10
byo 10
hya 10
hyu 10
hyo 10
pya 10
pyu 10
pyo 10
smtsu 1
smtsu 1

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Re: Japanese Scrabble

Postby paloma_ill » June 13th, 2013 12:35 am

Hi everyone!

So many good ideas!
Please keep up the good work! And having fun while learning Japanese!

Paloma
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