========== Competitive Karuta Rules ==========
(Summarized Japanese Wiki translation ftw~! I watched a very boring video of competitive karuta to double check, and it is accurate. Fortunately, it looks a lot more interesting in anime.)
- Ooishi Tengudou‘s Hyakunin-Isshu karuta cards are used in the competition.
- Each player holds 25 places cards each in their own “territory”, on a tatami area under 87cm in width. A total of 50 random cards out of 100 are used in each game.
- Players are given 15 minutes to memorize the location of cards.
- After the memorization time, both players vow to the opponent before starting the match. A game of karuta begins and ends with a vow in accordance to The Path of Karuta’s Honorable Gamesmanship.
- The game begins with a verse from The Song of Naniwa Harbor (the one CR messed up). Followed by a randomly selected verse from the Hyakunin-Isshu karuta’s 100 songs.
- Each verse is broken down into “first half” and “second half”. The “first half” is sang, while the “second half” is printed on karuta cards.
- The point of the game is to listen to the first verse, and grab the matching card first.
- If a player gets (touches first) the matching card in his own territory, that card is removed from the board.
- If a player gets t he matching card in enemy territory, that card is removed, and s/he can pass one card of choice from their own territory to the enemy territory.
- 1) Contact on a card while a verse not present on the board is sang (the unused 50 cards). 2) Touching a card in the enemy territory while a card in your own territory is sang. 3) Vice versa of 2). Those three plays are called “fouls”, and a card of opponent’s choice will be placed into your own territory.
- Touching a wrong card in your own territory is not a foul.
- Players are allowed to change the order of their cards so long as the opponent is notified. Switching too many cards are considered to be bad manner. (This rule probably exists so that players don’t have to remember the order when multiple cards are slapped. Players are allowed to touch multiple cards without penalty as long as the first contact is with the correct card.)
- Repeat verses until either territory gets rid of all cards. That player is the winner.
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