Board game
Throw yut, stack and capture pieces, finish first. Up to 4 players; the host picks piece count.
Do·Gae·Geol·Yut·Mo·Back-do · stack · capture · shortcuts
Playfulo Yutnori is the Korean board game of throwing four sticks (do, gae, geol, yut, mo, back-do) to move pieces. Play against AI, on one device, or with an invite link — up to 4 players, no sign-up.
The host chooses player count (2–4) and pieces per player (2–4). Throws play a tumbling-stick animation and sound.
Stacking, capturing, and corner shortcuts are included. Yut and mo grant an extra throw; capturing does too.
On your turn, throw the sticks and move a piece (or stack). First player to get every piece home wins.
Easy picks among legal moves more randomly. Normal and Hard score captures, finishes, and shortcut progress; Hard shuffles candidates less.
Your piece is on the corner (point 5) and an opponent stands on the center point (point 23). The throw is geol, three steps. A piece that stopped on a corner takes the diagonal shortcut, so moving it three steps lands on the center and captures. Bringing a piece out of home only stands a new piece on 3.
Start
The red piece is on the upper-right corner. The blue piece is on the center point, three stations down the diagonal from that corner. The dots and diagonals match Playfulo's yut board. Pieces at home are off the board.
Line 1 / 4
On the left the opponent is gone. On the right the corner piece never moved and point 3 only gained a piece.
Capture
Three steps plus the capture score and the center bonus. Normal and Hard rank moves by this score, and Hard shuffles that order less.
Missed capture
You have one more piece on the board and you walked past the capture. Easy ignores the score, so this move is just as likely as any other legal one.
The yutnori AI does not read several throws ahead. It scores each piece that can move with the throw you just made.
Capture 80, finish 70, corner or center 18, stack 12, Easy's uniform draw, Normal's shake of 12, and Hard's shake of 4 are the yutnori scoring function. The dots on the diagram match the game board.
The host (who creates the room or starts a local game) picks 2–4 players and 2–4 pieces each. Online rooms start when the table is full; AI fills empty seats in solo play.
Yut (4) and mo (5) grant another throw. Back-do moves one space back and cannot be used on a piece still at start. Capturing sends opponent pieces home and grants a bonus throw.
Yutnori is a traditional Korean board game that families often play during Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year. Instead of dice you throw four yut sticks; how many land flat side up decides the move (do, gae, geol, yut, or mo). Teams race their pieces around the board, take corner shortcuts, stack pieces, and capture opponents. Playfulo's yutnori online keeps these traditional rules with AI or friends.
Stacked pieces move together, but one capture sends the whole stack back to the start. Stack when the path is safe and you want to finish sooner. Split when you need to threaten two enemy pieces at once, or when losing the whole stack would end the round. Prefer the piece that can take a corner shortcut on yut or mo, and avoid leaving a piece where a back-do captures it immediately.