Board game
5 games
Strategic board games have been central to Japanese culture for over a millennium. Go and Shogi dominate the tradition: Go with its simple rules and bottomless depth, Shogi with its unique drop rule that keeps every captured piece in play. Both were studied by aristocrats and samurai, played in tatami rooms and dedicat...
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Go
囲碁 (Igo)
Go embodies a paradox: its rules can be learned in minutes, yet its strategic depth rivals any game ever invented. Played on a 19×19 grid, two players place bla...
2 Hard
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Shogi
将棋
Shogi is Japanese chess: 9×9 board, 20 pieces per side, and the drop rule that defines it—captured pieces return to the board as your own. Promotion in the enem...
2 Hard
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Gomoku
五目
Gomoku is easy to learn—five in a row on a 15×15 or 19×19 grid—but Black's first-move advantage is strong. Renju fixes that with forbidden patterns for Black (d...
2 Easy
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Sugoroku
双六
Sugoroku covers two traditions: ban sugoroku (backgammon-like with dice and bearing off) and e-sugoroku (illustrated race boards with square instructions). Both...
2+ Easy
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Hasami Shogi
はさみ将棋
Hasami Shogi is a simplified shogi variant for all ages. Nine pieces each, rook-style movement, and custodian capture—sandwich enemy pieces between two of yours...
2 Easy
