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How to Play Paengi Chigi: The Version Korean Kids Actually Grew Up With

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A wooden Korean spinning top and a whip on a patch of ice in winter

If you search for how to play paengi chigi, almost every guide shows you the same scene: a child on frozen ground in winter, striking a wooden top with a small whip to keep it spinning. That version is real, and it is old. It is also not the game I played. I grew up … Read more

How to Play Yutnori: The Korean Game That Runs on a Full House

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Four wooden yut sticks and a paper yutnori board laid out on the floor

Every guide that explains how to play yutnori gets the rules right and the game wrong. The rules take about four minutes to learn. Four wooden sticks, a board of twenty-nine stations, four pieces per side, first side to bring all four home wins. That is genuinely all of it. What the rules do not … Read more