Ttakji (딱지)
Ttakji or Ddakji (Korean: 딱지) is a traditional Korean game. This is a game with two square pieces corresponding to two players or two groups of players, if the opponent's card flips, he will win.
If you are a person who often watches Korean reality shows, this is a game that is no longer strange. In particular, in the reality show, Running Man was played a lot. Recently, the movie Squid Game is getting a lot of attention. And Ttakji is the game that appears at the beginning of the movie in the scene of two actors Gong Yoo and Lee Jung Jae.
Ttakjis (flat and square game pieces) are made from a variety of paper, mainly cardboard such as old book covers, calendar sheets, etc. It has a square or rectangular shape depending on the person folding it.
How to play Ttakji:
- As noted above, the game requires at least two players or more. The players decide the order using the Rock Paper Scissors game. The losers place their ttakji on the ground, while the winner tries to throw the ttakji on the opponent's ttakji causing them to flip over. If the player flips the opponent's ttakji, he wins.
- There are other versions to play this game like Nallyeomeokgi (Throws). The player holds and throws the ttakji with one hand, and the player who throws the furthest takes the other player's ttakji. Another way to play this version is to draw a line on the ground and throw a ttakji that falls exactly on it to get another player's ttakji. Or there is another version, Mireonaegi (Push out). The player draws a circle on the ground and places a ttakji inside that circle. The player wins the other player's ttakji by knocking down the other player's ttakji and knocking them out of the circle.
