Sugoroku

Sugoroku (Japanese双 六and双 六) is the name of two Japanese dice games.

The first is played on the mapped plan and resembles the head game.

The second is related to backgammon, and enjoyed great popularity for centuries until it fell in the 19th century in the course introduced by the Tokugawa shogunate harsh penalties for gambling only in disrepute and, in time, into oblivion. Although the beginning of the 20th century was once again trying to revive the game again, but now the game is hardly known a Japanese more. Today, only the nuns sell in the Buddhist monasteries of Kyoto their time with Sugoroku.

It is played on the backgammon board -like Sugoroku board, but only the right side is being used.

It pits two players against each other. Each of them has 15 checkers of one color. Is rolled with two cubic dice. The aim of the game is to hit as many of the opponent's pieces.

Game rules

Source

• The Big Book of Board Games. R. C. Bell, 1980, p 93

• Backgammon
• Historical game
• Craps
• Culture ( Japan)