1. Lay all the cards face down on the table or floor.

The Karuta game is a traditional Japanese game. What is Karuta? Karuta is a Japanese word for a game which is played everywhere. It's really quite simple:

3. The teacher calls out one of the cards.

A Japanese poem card game was held in Beijing on Saturday. This was also a Karuta game.

5. When there are no more cards, the winner is the person with the most.

More than a score of Chinese college and middle school students and a dozen Japanese primary school student, joined in the Karuta game.

The students from two countries played together and were friendly to each other.

4. The first student to "snap" the card keeps it.

This game usually works well with pronunciation.

2. The students put their hands on their heads.

The Chinese students were from Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing University of Science and Technology and some other universities. They tried to recite some of the poems written on the cards. A third-year college student felt she was lucky she got the victory. Her team won the first place.