Go, Shogi, Mahjong, Karuta, omikuji, kamon and the traditions behind MyRin.
Every MyRin game carries a Japanese name. What the kanji mean, from Kai-awase shell matching and sangaku temple tablets to the nurikabe wall spirit of folklore.
Learn all 46 hiragana in about a week: how the chart works, a day-by-day plan, the characters people confuse, dakuten, small tsu and the spelling rules beginners miss.
Temari in MyRin sorts embroidered thread balls into bamboo tubes. The rules, the empty-tube principle, how to play hard mode blind, and the craft behind it.
Kamon in MyRin sorts Japanese family crests onto lacquer stands. How to read the crests, the rules, hard mode in gold, and the history of kamon.
Hanafuda is a deck, not a game. Koi-Koi, Hachi-Hachi, Oicho-Kabu and Go-Stop explained, plus why the 48 cards are arranged the way they are.
Crosswords test what you know. Japanese logic puzzles test what you can deduce. Why that difference exists, where it came from, and what each style suits.
Learn the rules of Go in one read: liberties and capture, the ko rule, passing, territory scoring with komi, a worked 9x9 opening, beginner mistakes and etiquette.
The complete rules of Shogi: the 9x9 board, all eight pieces and their moves, promotion, the drop rule that puts captured pieces back on the board, and a first opening.
Japanese riichi mahjong from zero: the 136 tiles, how a hand is built, draw and discard, calling riichi, the yaku you need to win, furiten and scoring basics.
How to play Koi-Koi with hanafuda flower cards: the 48-card deck, card types, matching, the koi-koi decision, every standard yaku and simple beginner strategy.
How competitive karuta works: the 100 poems, the 50 cards on the tatami, kimariji, faults, the 15-minute memorisation, ranks and titles, and the skills it trains.
How a small Tokyo publisher named Sudoku and exported the logic puzzle: Nikoli's design rules, and how Sudoku, Kakuro, Hashi, Nurikabe, Slitherlink and Masyu work.
A chapter-by-chapter tour of The Mind Games of Japan, MyRin's free ebook: complete rules for Go, Shogi, Mahjong, Hanafuda and Karuta, plus the Nikoli puzzle tradition.
Sangaku were wooden tablets filled with geometry problems, hung at Shinto shrines in Edo-period Japan.
MyRin's Kana Scout (Visual Search) game asks you to find the one katakana character that doesn't match the rest.
Karuta is a Japanese competitive card sport played at national championships. MyRin's Rin Karuta brings the same lightning-fast poetry-matching mechanic to.
Kakuro is a Japanese logic puzzle that combines crossword structure with arithmetic constraints.
Hashi (bridge-building) and Nurikabe (river shading) are two of Japan's most elegant logic puzzles. This guide covers their origins, their logic, and how to solve them.
Three Japanese philosophical concepts, ikigai (purpose), kaizen (continuous improvement), and kodawari (obsessive craft), map precisely onto the research on.
Omikuji are fortune slips drawn at Japanese shrines and temples. MyRin uses the same six-tier system, Daikichi to Kyo, as a daily reflection mechanic.
Wabi-sabi is the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in imperfection and impermanence. It has a direct application to brain training, and to how we.