race game; track board game
A board game where players roll dice and move pieces along a track to reach the goal. Often played during New Year's in Japan. The modern form is usually a printed sheet with a winding path.
See also: 絵双六
We played sugoroku with the family during New Year's.
In this sugoroku, the goal is on the 100th square.
ban-sugoroku; traditional backgammon-like game
The original historical form of sugoroku, similar to backgammon, using a board with two rows of twelve spaces and black and white stones. Now mostly a historical or traditional game.
See also: 盤双六
Ban-sugoroku was a game that was once popular among the nobility.
sugoroku board; ban-sugoroku board
ban-sugoroku; traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon
illustrated sugoroku; Japanese picture board game with dice
Usually written in kana; the kanji forms are rare or ateji.
Rare kanji form; the reading すぐろく is obsolete.
Search-only kyūjitai form.
Rarely used kanji form.
Ateji spelling; rarely used.
Katakana spelling sometimes used for emphasis or in titles.
Borrowed with the board game from Chinese 双陸, the name of a backgammon-like game. In Japanese the name came to be written 双六, whose 六 reflects the game’s use of dice.