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<\/p>\nThe last time I was at Kinokuniya, I impulsively bought a puzzle magazine called \u6f22\u5b57\u3066\u3093\u3064\u306a\u304e, or \u201cKanji Connect-the-Dot.\u201d It contains 200 puzzles, most of which ask a question with three possible answers (typically kanji compounds), and then a connect-the-dot puzzle to reveal the correct answer.<\/p>\n
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For example, puzzle 16 is titled \u6625\u306e\u82b1\u58c7\u306b\u6cf3\u3050, or \u201cSwimming in a Spring Flower Bed\u201d. The accompanying text reads: <\/p>\n
\u6625\u304b\u3089\u521d\u590f\u306b\u304b\u3051\u3066\u54b2\u304f\u3001\u80cc\u306e\u9ad8\u3044\u690d\u7269\u3067\u3059\u3002\u305d\u306e\u82f1\u540d\u306f\u300c\u7adc\u306e\u53e3\u300d\u3068\u3044\u3046\u610f\u5473\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002\u3066\u3093\u3092\u3064\u306a\u3050\u3068\u73fe\u308c\u308b\u8a00\u8449\u306f\u3069\u308c\u3067\u3057\u3087\u3046\u304b\uff1f<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a plant that grows tall and blooms between spring and the beginning of summer. It\u2019s English name has the meaning \u201cdragon\u2019s mouth.\u201d Will you connect the dots and see which word will appear?<\/i><\/p>\n The following three possibilities are given:<\/p>\n A. \u77f3\u6960\u82b1 (stone \/ camphor tree \/ flower) = Rhododendron The title hints at the correct answer (\"swimming\"), as does the background image behind the connect-the-dot section. The answer for this one is C. \u91d1\u9b5a\u8349<\/p>\n I\u2019m clearly not the target demographic for this magazine (the one advertisement is for a large-print book helping 60-year-olds figure out smartphones), but I find the puzzles very relaxing and it\u2019s fun looking up the compounds and poetic expressions I don\u2019t know. If one were in Japan, one could submit completed answer sheets in to be entered into a drawing for a variety of prizes (ranging from convenience store giftcards up to a Nintendo Switch Lite). For those of us not in Japan, though, it adds another source for Kanji recognition work in a low-stress package. Most of the puzzles seem to have around 150-200 dots, although there are a couple of fold-out puzzles with 400 dots each. A few pages have smaller puzzles that you have to solve together in order to arrive at the answer (\"rearrange the four characters you uncover to find the answer\" or \"compose a character out of these three component pieces\") with only 30 dots or so each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last time I was at Kinokuniya, I impulsively bought a puzzle magazine called \u6f22\u5b57\u3066\u3093\u3064\u306a\u304e, or \u201cKanji Connect-the-Dot.\u201d It contains 200 puzzles, most of which ask a question with three possible answers (typically kanji compounds), and then a connect-the-dot puzzle to reveal the correct answer. For example, puzzle 16 is titled \u6625\u306e\u82b1\u58c7\u306b\u6cf3\u3050, or \u201cSwimming in … Continue reading Kanji Connect-the-Dots<\/span>
\nB. \u5973\u90ce\u82b1 (woman \/ son \/ flower) = Yellow Patrinia
\nC. \u91d1\u9b5a\u8349 (gold \/ fish \/ grass) = Snapdragon<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/917AB025-9291-49D4-A585-3D0A243C0135-scaled.jpeg?resize=788%2C1051&ssl=1\")
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