How many people can play Karuta?

Answer 1

In Competetive Karuta, ten people can play. Five for one group, five for the opponent group. They will be paired up with their opponents so they will be 'playing their own game' in a way.

In other Karuta games, however, the number of players do not matter, especially in Big Karuta when you fill a whole classroom/room with cards and search for them that way. Teachers also use Karuta to help students learn new vocab, and they play as an entire class.

One person can also play by themselves using either a recording of their own voice reading out the cards or going to the internet and finding someone who will read it out for them(making sure you all have the same cards, of course).

So, really, the lowest it can go up to is one person, the highest probably being a room full of children, haha.