8 board gadgets

Each themed board has two kinds of gadgets. A gadget only works on a piece that stops exactly on it. Passing over does nothing.

Gadgets are placed anew every game. Turn them off with the “Board gadgets” house rule. The wood board and practice games have no gadgets.

Folk village board Daenggi’s market

Seesaw

Helps you two on the board

Stop on it and you bounce 1 to 3 spaces ahead. If an opponent is where you land, you catch them.

A-frame (jige)

Helps you one · moves around

If your side still has a piece waiting to start, it carries one along for you. After it works, it moves to another spot.

Beach board Slowpoke’s seaside

Slowpoke (sea turtle)

Helps you one · moves around

Rides your piece on its shell to the next corner (Mo or Dwimo), or further on to Jjimo or the start, so you can take a shortcut from there.

Giant clam

Trap two on the board

Stop on it and it snaps shut, swallows your whole stack and spits it back to waiting. Then it hides in the sand and pops up somewhere else.

Space board Big-Eye’s Starland

Wormhole

Depends a pair

Stop on one and you come out of the other. An opponent there gets caught; your own piece gets stacked. Plan where you want to go.

Big-Eye (alien)

Trap one · moves around

Zaps one piece back to waiting with a ray gun. If you are stacked, only one piece is hit.

Hanok board Doryeong’s hanok house

Lucky pouch

Helps you one · moves around

Stop on it and the pouch pops open, the sticks fly out, and you throw again.

Grand gate

Helps you one · moves around

Stop on it and the gate opens: swap places with any opponent piece (with its whole stack). You pick who. If you don’t pick in 5 seconds, you swap with the opponent furthest ahead. The comeback gadget.

Tips

• Catching with a gadget earns an extra throw, even when you landed there with a yut or mo.
• Steer clear of giant clams and Big-Eye, especially with a big stack.
• Save the grand gate for when you’re behind. Swapping with the leader turns the game around in one move.
• Gadgets are always on in Ranked. Check which board is up in today’s rules.

Out now in Korea. The US launch is coming soon.