A Beginners Guide to Shiritori

From Wikipedia

Basic Rules

• Two or more people take turns to play.
• Only nouns are permitted.
• A player who plays a word ending in the syllable N (ん) loses the game.
• Words may not be repeated.
• Phrases connected by no (の) are permitted, but only in those cases where the phrase is sufficiently fossilized to be considered a "word".

Example: sakura (さくら)-> rajio (ラジオ/らじお)-> onigiri (おにぎり)-> risu (りす)-> sumou (すもう) -> udon (うどん)

The player who played the word udon lost this game.

There are various optional and advanced rules, which must be agreed on before the game begins.

Let's take a look at a game in action: