After that, reverse roles

Teacher: selects a student to secretly choose a youkai. Teacher cycles among slides. Asks the student to say when to stop.

Student: says when to stop, then secretly chooses a youkai and gives the teacher hints in Japanese. (It can be more than three; we want students to practice Japanese!)

Teacher: guesses the youkai.

Group variation

Teacher: selects a student to secretly choose a youkai. Teacher cycles among slides. Asks one student to say when to stop.

Student: says when to stop, then secretly chooses a youkai and indicates to class.

Teacher: calls on individual students to each give one hint for the chosen youkai.

Student: Each gives one hint about the chosen youkai.

Teacher: guesses the youkai.

Students vs Students variation

Teacher: Divide students into teams.

Students: Each slide is one match. For each match, each team secretly selects a youkai, then gives the other teams 3 hints. Each team decides on a guess. Each correct guess earns a point. Team with the most points after all slides wins.

Reading & Writing Guess Who

Below is a reading (よみましょう) play sheet version of the activity where students circle the youkai that corresponds to each list of hints. Each youkai is used only once and can be any of the youkai on the sheet; they are not divided by lines.

Also below is a writing (かきましょう) play sheet version where the student picks a youkai and writes hints for it.

English-language Youkai Books for the Curious

For students and teachers interested in reading about youkai, Michael Dylan Foster, Zack Davisson, and Matthew Meyer (author-illustrator of yokai.com) have published multiple English-language books about youkai. There is also an annotated English translation of Toriyama Sekien's Edo-Period youkai books titled Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien.