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Gonggi (Korean: 공기, IPA:) also known as Korean Jacks and Seven stones is a popular Korean children's game that is traditionally played using five or more small grape-sized pebbles. Nowadays, children buy colourful plastic stones instead of finding pebbles. It can be played alone or with friends. The stones are called gonggitdol (공깃돌 ...
McCune–Reischauer. Chegich'agi. Jegichagi is a Korean traditional outdoor game in which players kick a paper jegi into the air and attempt to keep it aloft. A jegi is similar to a shuttlecock, and is made from paper wrapped around a small coin. In Korea, children usually play alone or with friends in winter seasons, especially on Korean New Year.
Yutnori. [edit] Yutnori, a board dice game with four wooden sticks, is one of the most popular traditional games of Korea and usually played on the first day of the New Year by two players (or teams). Each player (or team of two players) takes turns throwing yut sticks. Each stick has two sides (round and flat), which makes the stick roll.
Ddakji (Korean: 딱지; RR: ttakji; MR: ttakchi) [a] is a traditional Korean toy used primarily to play variants of a category of games called ddakji chigi (딱지 치기; ttakji chigi; ttakchi ch'igi; lit. playing/hitting ddakji). They are usually made of paper and are thrown in some way during games. The flipping variant of the game ...
Yunnori. Yutnori (Korean: 윷놀이), also known as yut, nyout and yoot, is a traditional board game played in Korea, especially during Korean New Year. The game is also called cheoksa (척사; 擲柶) or sahui (사희; 柶戲).
Paengi-Chigi (kor:팽이치기) is a traditional Korean game enjoyed by both the both young and old and is played mainly in the winter. This game involves a top and a stick with a long string. These spin tops are wound up with twine and then let go. [1] Players must keep hitting the spinning top with the string tuck with the stick to make it ...
Go-Stop (Korean: 고스톱; RR: Goseutop), also called Godori (Korean: 고도리, after the winning move in the game) is a Korean fishing card game played with a Hwatu (화투) deck. The game can be called Matgo (맞고) when only two players are playing. The game is derived from similar Japanese fishing games such as Hana-awase and Hachihachi ...
Jachigi. Jachigi (자치기) is a South Korean game where a long stick and two short sticks is hit and caught. First, a circular hole is dug on the ground, and a circle is drawn on the outside. After placing a short stick around the outside of the hole, it is hit with the long stick, and the rebounding stick (the short one that was just hit ...