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A Treasure Trove of Traditional Games

August 23, 2024 by Ethan Leave a Comment

Here are a couple sites that provide a compendium of traditional games with directions on how to put together what you need to play:

  • Board Games from Around the World
  • Cyningstan

Yut Nori (print & play)

January 21, 2015 by Ethan Leave a Comment

Yut Nori

Download a print & play version of Yut Nori.

Yut Nori is a Korean game that comes with Learning Video Game Design on the Tabletop. It is an elegant circle & cross game (a class of racing games that take place on circular or cruciform-shaped tracks). The best known cross & circle is the traditional Indian game Pachisi and its modern derivatives (Ludo, Parcheesi, Trouble, Sorry!).

Yut traditionally uses tossed sticks to determine the number of spaces the pieces can move, but this version of the game substitutes coins for the sticks. This does change the game’s dynamics a bit. The outcomes of a fair coin flip are identical in likelihood, whereas tossing a Yut stick results in flat side up approximately 60% of the time.

Download a print & play version of Yut Nori.

Agon (print & play)

November 20, 2014 by Ethan Leave a Comment

agon-board-wpAgon (also known as Queen’s Guard) is a tabletop game that is mentioned in passing in Learning Video Game Design on the Tabletop. The game is notable for being the first known one to use hexagonal game spaces.

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