Sugoroku

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Sugoroku (雙六 or 双六) (literally 'double six') refers to two different forms of a Japanese board game: e-sugoroku (絵双六, 'picture-sugoroku') which is similar to Western snakes and ladders, and ban-sugoroku (盤双六, 'board-sugoroku') which is similar to western tables games like backgammon. With ban-sugoroku being obsolete, today the word sugoroku almost always means e-sugoroku. E-sugoroku is popular in Japan through modern printing methods as supplements in boys’, girls’, and women’s magazines, as well as video games. Tsukiji Sugoroku Museum in Tokyo has a collection of 500 types of sugoroku from the Edo period to the 1950s.

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