If you know about Yugioh, you should know that it has an anime. Unfortunately, this anime was ruined by 4kids. They took out all of the swearing (which is only realistic considering the life or death situations and the age of the characters), removed guns and similar stuff, and they even got rid of the original series, which wasn't even based on the trading card game of today. Because of all this, we get the impression that this is intended for kids, when it was in fact intended for teens.
However, the intention is not really that important.
What is important is the fact that it is an insanely complicated game. There are very few children who can master this (and, of course, an even smaller amount who could afford to build whatever deck they wanted to due to the massive prices of the cards). Not only does the game have subtleties that take years to learn, but it also has rulings - there are so many conflicts and odd situations where the result cannot be determined by common sense that Konami has had to release hundreds to thousands of rulings explaining what happens in these situations. It's surprising how much you need to know to play correctly.
I could say more but the whole idea of a children's game is that it can be played by children. This game can, but those children who can (at a high level) tend to be quite intelligent and in fact it's more a teen/young adult's game. That isn't to say that older people shouldn't play it.
Same goes for Magic the Gathering, although the game is less well known and it's more obvious at a glance who it was intended for. It turns out that the game is actually less complicated than Yugioh.
The point of this post is that the label of something doesn't really matter.
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