A traditional Korean folk game.
The game involves throwing four halved, rounded wooden sticks onto a ‘yut-nor-i’ mat to advance game pieces around a board.
It can be played by two or more teams, and the team that successfully moves all four of its pieces from the starting point, around the board, and back to the start first, wins.
Teams take turns throwing the yut sticks. If a ‘yut’ or ‘mo’ is thrown, the team gets to throw again. Team pieces can also be combined into a single unit. At intersections, players can choose the direction of movement, allowing for strategic placement of pieces regardless of the order they were thrown.
The “Gyeokam Yurok” compares Jeung-pyeong’s emergence to a game of yut played between God and the devil. It states that the devil was almost winning with three pieces having returned and the last piece nearly back, while God had not yet had a single piece emerge, with all pieces at the starting point. However, God then threw five ‘mo’s consecutively and one ‘geol’.
Using four ‘mo’s, all four of God’s pieces were combined at the eastern fork. With one ‘geol’, the four pieces, now a single unit, were moved to the central fork. Then, using the remaining one ‘mo’, all four pieces simultaneously entered the origin point, leading to God’s victory through this strategic movement.