Card Game - Ino Shika Cho
Originated from a Japanese Card game but also known as Team 10 in Naruto. We 1st hear "formation Ino-Shika-Cho!" in the Forest of D*eath during the Chunnin exam and again when their parents fought against the Sand. Like we said, Ino-Shika-Cho actually originated from a card game called 'Hanafuda' in Japan.


Hanafuda Card Game
Countless card games were played since from the time of ancient Japan. Hanafuda is a very popular card game that evolutionized from the old games. 1st off, Ino, Shika and Cho each stand for a different animal (see name dictionary), namely boar, deer and butterfly respectively. In Hanafuda (or literally Flower Cards), you try to match the suits to earn points to win and form formations with the different cards to get more points and the player with the highest points win.


There are 48 cards in the Hanafuda deck. The cards are divided to have 12 suits each consisting of a formation of 4 different cards to represent the 12 months of the year. The cards are basically illustrated with pictures of flowers that bloom in the month that it represents and sometimes animals too. Each card also has a point value of either 1, 5, 10 or 20. Ino Shika Cho care 3 different cards and matching them together will give you 5 points.





Cho - Butterfly (from Chouji)
Chouji - Message of condolence / clove

Ino - Boar

Shika - Deer (from Shikamaru)



* Source: Narutfer - under - Hanafuda *