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18th Entertainment Division Jury Selections

Kuchisaki-bancho (Word Leader)

Game

Kuchisaki-bancho production team (IKEJIRI Daisaku / NISHIZAWA Manabu, Representatives) [Japan]

Outline

This word chain game sees players competing against each other’s knowledge, sensibility, and reflexes. With longer words holding more strength and the 25 characters you can use changing with each round, this is a wholly new kind of word puzzle challenge. The game has over 650,000 different words, including general nouns, people’s names, place names, and product names.