Old Korean favorites
These are the games Koreans played in yards and alleys and at family holidays, now on the web. Adults who know the rules and kids seeing them for the first time can play on one screen.
Yut Nori with throwing sticks, Gonu once scratched into the ground, Korean Janggi and Baduk, Omok, Alkkagi stone flicking, Ttangttameokgi land grab, alley marbles, Chilgyo tangram and the ladder game.
All free, with no download or sign up.
AlkkagiDrag your stone back and let go to flick it like a finger snap, knocking the other side's stones off the Go board. Pick 5, 8 or 10 stones each, and turns strictly alternate one shot at a time.
Land GrabAs in the old alley game drawn in the dirt, flick your piece up to three times and return to your own land to claim the shape your stops traced. Stop on the other player's land or go out of bounds and the turn earns nothing.
MarblesShoot your big marble to knock marbles out of the ring drawn in the dirt and keep the ones you win, the old alley game rebuilt in 3D. Face 12 neighborhood kids over 60 stages and fill a collection of 36 marble types.
Yut NoriThrow four yut sticks and move do, gae, geol, yut or mo spaces depending on how many land face up, the holiday game laid out on its 29 point board. Capturing, stacking and corner shortcuts are all there, and Back-do can be switched on or off.
GonuThree classic forms of gonu, the board game once scratched into the ground, are here: Well Gonu, Pumpkin Gonu and Gonjil Gonu. In the first two you win by trapping your opponent, and in Gonjil Gonu you capture by lining up three.
TangramDrag the seven pieces of the old tangram board and turn them in 45 degree steps until they cover the silhouette exactly. There are 44 shapes, from geometric figures to animals, people and objects, and the parallelogram can be flipped.
Gomoku (Omok)Black and white take turns placing stones on the intersections, racing to line up five in a row as in the classic game. The board is the standard 15 by 15, and you can play with the double three ban or free rules.
Go (Baduk)Take turns placing stones, capture groups whose liberties are filled and win by surrounding more territory, just as in traditional Go. Choose a 9, 13 or 19 line board and seven computer levels, with handicap stones if you want them.
JanggiCho and Han move chariots, cannons, horses, elephants and soldiers one at a time to checkmate the general inside its palace. Before the game you pick one of four horse and elephant setups, and the computer has seven levels.
Ladder GameNames go at the top and results at the bottom, and each path crosses over at every rung on the way down, the long standing East Asian way of drawing lots, drawn for you on screen. The rungs start hidden under paper so nobody can trace a path in advance.
Yut, Gonu, Janggi, Baduk, Omok, Alkkagi, Ttangttameokgi, marbles, Chilgyo tangram and the ladder game.
Yes. Yut, Gonu, Janggi and Alkkagi can be played by two on one screen, or alone against the computer.
Two to four, with computers filling empty seats.
Each game page explains the rules and tips below the board.
