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Encyclopedia ID 1086

Gonu

Also known as Gono

Gonu: photograph by UY Albert!
Photo: UY Albert!, CC BY 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Family of small line-and-capture games played with pebbles on lines scratched on the ground.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of South Korea.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Deep Past and First Games (before about 3000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Japan and Korea.

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