Traditional Korean game · Yutnori

Throw the yut sticks and get all four pieces home first

Yutnori is the game Korean families gather around every Lunar New Year. The first side to move all four pieces around the board and off wins. Stop on a corner and you can take a shortcut.

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Online Yut

Yutnori rules

  1. Do moves 1 space, Gae 2, Geol 3, Yut 4 and Mo 5. If only the marked stick lands face up, it is Back-do: move one piece 1 space backward.
  2. Throwing Yut or Mo earns another throw. You can use your results in any order you like.
  3. Land on a space with an opposing piece to capture it: it goes back to the start, and you throw again.
  4. Land on your own piece and they stack, moving together from then on. If captured, they are captured together.
  5. Stop on a corner or the center spot and your next move takes the shortcut.
  6. A piece gets home only after passing the Start · Finish point. If it stops exactly on that point, any result will take it home next. The first to get all four pieces home wins.

A free traditional game for fun. No betting, prizes or payments, and no records are kept.