Games

Tangrams:

• Making Tangram Pieces by Folding Paper
• Mathagon Tangram Builder Website
• Puzzle Museum – digital collection of historical tangram sets and other puzzles
• The Sages Journey (youtube)
• Tangrams: Be Yourself – YouTube Children’s Stories
• Stop Motion Tangrams Set to Music (youtube)
• Tangrams as Performative Art
• Virtual Go Game
• Pythagorean Theorom Proof by Lui Hui
• OSMO: Tangram app for iPad and Tablet Computers
• Convex Tangrams (Austrailian Mathematics Teacher)
• Loyd, Sam. The Book of Tangrams (Dover, 2019)
• Slocum, Jerry. The Tangram Book: The Story of the Chinese Puzzle. (Sterling, 2005)
• Happy As A Gram, From Lauren Ko’s “Pieometry”. CBS News. – Tangrams Pie Recipe 
• “Five Compelling Reasons to Teach Spatial Reasoning to Young Children.”KQED. MindShift:
• “Spatial Skills Archive” KQED. MindShift

Karuta:

• Karuta Game Instructions
• Pacific War Karuta Collection Exhibit, held in the East Asia Image Collection at Lafayette College
• Karuta: Japanese Card Game, Take & Go Resource by Kelsey Kerscher
• Karuta: History, Take & Go Resource by Kayla Kolean

Sugoroku:

• Atomic Sugoroku Bilingual Gameboard, a 1949 Chutes-and-Ladders-style game created children’s game board about particle physics, world peace, and Japan’s first Nobel Prize recipient in Physics, Yukawa Hideki
• 3-minute curator’s talk about the Atomic Sugoroku Gameboard (mentioned above) given by Dr. Ann Marie Davis, Japanese Studies Librarian at OSU
• Konbini Sugoroku Teaching Notes (On Japan Foundation Australia web site)
• Konbini Gameboard

NCTA Teaching Resources:

• • Science & Sugoroku and Student Handout and Answer Key by Megan Chapman
  • 40 Female Artists and Gameboard by Erica Davis-Hernandez
  • Comparing History: Teacher Version and Comparing History: Student Version by Kayla Kolean
  • Sugoroku and Government by Megan Kuns
  • Yukawa Physics & Nuclear Weapons by Jennifer LaPlace
  • The Great Escape – A Sugoroku-Style Animal Adventure by Angie Stokes

Pokemon (Bingo):

• Pokemon Bingo Slidedeck
• Play Virtual Bingo with “My Free Bingo Cards“
• Bingo Card Generator (From MyFreeBingoCards.com)
• 30 Pokemon Bingo Card Printouts
• R A Schmidt-Jeffris, J C Nelson, Gotta Catch ’Em All! Communicating Entomology with Pokémon, American Entomologist, Volume 64, Issue 3, Fall 2018, Pages 159–164, https://doi-org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1093/ae/tmy048

Games about Korea:

• How well do you know your country
• Word Association (Padlet)
• Korean Science (Quizlet)
• Famous Koreans (Kahoot)
• Animals (Flippity Scavenger Hunt)
• Mapmaker Interactive (National Geographic)
• Speed Match – North Korea and South Korea General Information (SuperTeacherTools)
• Jeopardy: Korean Literature – Book Review (SuperTeacherTools)
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Korean Poetry and Art (SuperTeacherTools)
• Korea Game Database
• Korea Game (Flippity)
• Korea Game Spreadsheet- (Flippity)
• Korea Game (Slidesmania)
• North or South Korea Game (Quizlet)
• North or South Korea Spreadsheet (Quizlet)

Further Reading:

• “Celebrate Student Research: Games in Asia” webinar held on May 18, 2021, and hosted by the Asian Library and Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. https://asian.library.ubc.ca/celebrate-student-research-games-in-asia/
• English language articles and resource are copied as follows:
  • Culin, Stewart. Korean games with notes on the corresponding games of China and Japan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1895.
  • “Famous Places, People, and Social Customs on Paper: Sugoroku Board Games from the Edo Period, Part 1, Famous Places,” National Diet Library Newsletter, no. 234 (2020): 5-11.
  • “Famous Places, People, and Social Customs on Paper: Sugoroku Board Games from the Edo Period, Part 2, People,” National Diet Library Newsletter, no. 236 (2021): 6-15.
  • “Famous Places, People, and Social Customs on Paper: Sugoroku Board Games from the Edo Period, Part 3. Social Customs,” National Diet Library Newsletter, no. 237 (2021): 1-9.
  • The Landmarks of Edo in Color Woodblock Prints. National Diet Library. (*Some of the places depicted in meisho or dōchū sugoroku can be found on this online exhibit of nishiki-e [colour woodblock prints] depictions of Edo landmarks with annotated descriptions.
  • Moskowitz, Marc L. Go nation: Chinese masculinities and the game of weiqi in China. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013].
  • Szablewicz, Marcella. Mapping digital game culture in China from Internet addicts to esports athletes. Cham: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Course website and blog created by Professor Christina Laffin (University of British Columbia) for her course, “Asia 453: Japanese Travel Literature” with student projects in response to course sugoroku assignments (https://blogs.ubc.ca/asia453/sugoroku-assignment/) and maps assignments (https://blogs.ubc.ca/asia453/maps-assignment/)