This list is about words related to board (Catan, etc.) or card games (poker, etc.). I hope you find these useful!
If you are interested in Chess specifically, I have a vocabulary list for that here.
- ルール (ruuru): rule / rules
- 解説 (kaisetsu): explanation
- 初心者 (shoshinsha): beginner
- ボードゲーム (boodo geemu): board game
- 遊ぶ (asobu): to play
- プレイする (purei suru): to play (similiar to the above)
- サイコロ (saikoro): die / dice (also ダイス)
- 振る (furu): to toss (a die)
- 振りなおす (furinaosu): to re-roll (a die or dice)
- 目 (me): literally ‘eye’, but often used to refer to a face of a die
- ぞろ目 (zorome): getting two dice with the same face (doubles)
- 勝利する: (shouri suru): to win (or without “suru” as a noun)
- 勝ち (kachi): win
- 負け (make): loss
- 資源 (shigen): resource
- 交渉する (koushou suru): to negotiate
- マップ (mappu): map
- 拡張セット (kakuchou setto): expansion set
- 〜点 (~ ten): counter for points (ex: １０点＝10 points)
- ポイント (point): point / points (can also mean an important point in a discussion)
- 競争 (kyousou): competition
- 対戦 (taisen): battle, competition
- 相手 (aite): one of the other players (opponent)
- プレーヤー (pureeyaa): player (also プレイヤー)
- 開始 (kaishi): begin, start (開始プレーヤー = beginning player)
- 終了 (shuuryou): end (of game, etc.)
- カード (kaado): card
- デッキ (dekki): deck (of cards, etc.)
- コマ (koma): piece (like a chess piece)
- 盤 (ban): board (often used as a suffix, i.e. ゲーム盤）
- 初期配置 (shoki haichi): initial placement
- 置く (oku): to place (a card, etc.)
- 購入する (kounyuu suru): to purchase (a game item, etc.)
- トランプ (toranpu): can refer to a single card or cards in general, especially typical playing cards
- 裏側にする (uragawa ni suru): put face down
- 裏向き (uramuki): face down
- 表向き (omotemuki: face up
- 配る (kubaru): to deal
- 手札 (tefuda): cards in hand
- 加える (kuwaeru): to add (cards to your hand, etc.)
- 引く (hiku): to draw (one or more cards)
- 引かせる (hikaseru): to make another player draw (one or more cards)
- 場に出す (ba ni dasu): to put in play (also in MtG, 戦場に出す, “to put into the battlefield”)
- 束 (taba): bundle/pack/deck (of cards)
- 〜枚 (~mai): counter for number of cards or other flat things (１０枚=10 cards)
- 切る (kiru): literally “to cut”, but often used in card games to mean “shuffle”
- シャッフルする (shaffuru suru): to shuffle (a deck of cards, etc.)
- 各自〜 (kakuji ~): each (player, etc.)
- 重ねる (kasaneru): to pile up (cards, etc.)
- 繰り返す(kurikaesu): to repeat (some action)
- 行動 (koudou): [an] action
- 数字 (suuji): number (like a ‘7’ on a card)
- 捨てる (suteru): to get rid of (a card)
- 外す (hazusu): to remove (a card from your hand)
- 時計回り (tokei mawari): clockwise
- ペア (pea): pair (of cards, etc.)
- チップ (chippu): chip(s) (poker chips, etc.)
- 強い (tsuyoi): strong[er] (for example, an “10” card is stronger than a “9”)
- 番 (ban): turn (僕の番 = my turn) (also 手番 (teban))
- ターン (taan): turn (same as above)
- 揃う(sorou): to complete a set of something (two of the same card, etc.)
- 墓地 (bochi): graveyard (in MtG)
- 効果 (kouka): effect (or a card, etc.)
- カウンター (kauntaa): counter (poison counter, etc.)
- 先攻 (senkou): going first (in a card game, etc.)¥
If you want to see how Magic: the Gathering is described in Japanese, you can see the official rules in Japanese here. Or see this page which has a simplified set of rules that are easier to follow.
You can see a list of all my vocabulary lists here.
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