Sugoroku

This variant of the tables family has died out in Japan and most other countries, while the Western style modern backgammon (with doubling-cube) still has some avid players.

A simpler e-sugoroku, with rules similar to snakes and ladders [clarification needed], appeared as early as late 13th century and was made popular due to the cheap and elaborate wooden block printing technology of the Edo period.

Thousands of variations of boards were made with pictures and themes from religion, political, actors, and even adult material.

Instead, it plays very much like Itadaki Street, Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise, or a simplified version of Monopoly: players take turns in moving around a board, the spaces of which are designated as different territories of Japan.

Several of the Dragon Quest games feature a minigame called sugoroku (known as Treasures n' Trapdoors or Pachisi in English localizations) that has players moving along a board with spaces after rolling a 6-sided die.