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In Episode 6 of _Bakuon!!_ , the Bike Club girls play some sort of strange
game to decide who's going to organize the race they're holding for the school
festival.

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> Hane: We're deciding by the popular vote system that Onsa-chan came up with.
> We each write a character on the palms of our hands, and whoever has the
> most wins.

Raimu and Hijiri both write 金 (gold) on their hands, which somehow means that
Hijiri wins and that her idea has to involve "gold" somehow, which leads her
to create a betting pool for the winner of the race.

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[![enter image description
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[![enter image description
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[![enter image description
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> Hijiri: I win with the most, which means...I'll be in charge of this matter.  
>  Onsa: But how do you make the race more exciting with gold?

How is this game supposed to work? According to Hane, "whoever has the most
wins". The most what? It looks like "the most people writing the same
character". But then why does Hijiri win, and not Raimu, who wrote the same
character? (Aside from the reason that it's hard to organize a race when you
can only communicate by writing on a notebook and no one officially recognizes
your existence.)

Also, if you're allowed to pick any character, the odds of any of the [50,000
kanji in the Dai Kan-wa
Jiten](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/11737/7218), or even any of the
2,136 Jouyou kanji, getting a majority among five people are quite low.
Initially I thought the characters were limited to days of the week, but Rin
picked 銀 (silver), which isn't a day of the week.

Since Hane mentions that Onsa invented this game, I assume it isn't a real
game, but maybe it's based on something, or was explained more fully in the
manga.


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How is this game where you write a kanji on your hand supposed to work?


I have a few guesses, I will offer 2 of them. The 1st would be line weight,
but 2 people are also tied there. Furthermore, between those who wrote "gold",
the winner had more line weight, but that does not explain the win, anyway.

My 2nd guess is money, of which the winner had more "gold" than the other had
"silver". In regards to being able to choose from 50000 Kanji used by chinese
or up to 6000 used by Japanese, all stolen from the Chinese language itself,
they had to choose from what they materialistically had, of which the answers
were basic. While "fire" and "water" do not fit well into this theory because
it could mean either in total or nearby, having more money than just silver
coins would work well. Furthermore, between the 2 who chose money, the winner
also must have had more.

...Now, why am I referring to "gold" as "money"? It appears in a word used
this way in Japanese. お金 (おかね Okane) means "money". The お makes it honorable,
but that is barely on point, only beside it. If everyone had chosen "money" in
this point-of-view and manner, they who had the most, between all of the
above, would win. It could have been someone completely different. If everyone
had chosen completely different answers, they who had the most,
materialistically speaking, would have won.

Of course, this is just a theory, I could be wrong.


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It was indeed explained more fully in the manga in volume 3, chapter 18.

### Origin of the "game"

[![Origin of
game](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV9b2l.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV9b2.png)

Yes, the most people writing the same character win, and yes, you can
theoretically write any kanji character there is, as long as you explain how
you could make the race more exciting with the idea represented by that kanji.

Hijiri and Raimu both won, but Hijiri was especially excited because in the
manga,

> it took the girls 15 minutes to play the game to decide on what to do at the
> school festival, and Hijiri was the only one who wrote a different kanji
> character in that first round of vote so she felt kind of a loner.

And in the Battle of the Red Cliff, only Zhou Yu was in charge of carrying out
the fire attacks because Wu had more military power and was more hard-pressed
for survival, just like Hijiri is compared to Raimu.

Lastly, I believe it to be an error on the part of the sub group to translate
what Rin wrote as "silver" (銀) when in fact she wrote "bells" (鈴).

[![What everyone
wrote](https://i.stack.imgur.com/59RSbl.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/59RSb.png)


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