Japanese quiz problem

I love quiz shows.One of my favorites is called "Somosan Seppa" (It means "What is this?""I will guess right").This program needs wits rather than knowledge amount. One problem I think interesting is like this: when a mouth is 3 and an eye is 4,a nose will be what?


The answer is "9". First,this is a problem about five senses.And in Japanese,3 can be called み（mi), 4 can be called し（shi) and 9 can be called きゅう（kyu）. A sense associated with mouth is the taste, in Japanese みかく（mi-kaku). A sense associated with an eye is the sight, in Japanese しかく（shi-kaku). And a sense associated with is the smell, in Japanese きゅうかく（kyu-kaku).
Do you understand with my poor explanation? Unless you are interested in Japanese language,this might be boring...

<em>[Very good.  I like playing with words in English, and from what I have seen, Japanese is a also a good language with which to play with words.]</em>

Japanese quiz problem

I love quiz shows.One of my favorite is called "Somosan Seppa" (It means "What is this?""I will guess right").This program needs wits rather than knowledge amount.One problem I think interesting is like that:when a mouth is 3 and an eye is 4,a nose will be what?


The answer is "9". First,this is a problem about five senses.And in Japanese,3 can be called み（mi),4 can be called し（shi) and 9 can be called きゅう（kyu）.A sense associated with mouth is the taste,in Japanese みかく（mi-kaku).A sense associated with an eye is the sight,in Japanese しかく（shi-kaku).And a sense associated with a nose is the smell,in Japanese きゅうかく（kyu-kaku).
Do you understand with my poor explanation?Unless you are interested in Japanese language,this might be boring...