# East Asia's river boards, five-in-a-row and folded fortunes

> Paper and board games from East Asia, including xiangqi, gomoku, tangram, nonograms and origami fortune tellers, and how to print them with Paperoom.

## Xiangqi and the river

Xiangqi, often called Chinese chess, is played on the intersections of a board of 9 × 10 lines. A river (楚河 漢界, "Chu River, Han border") crosses the middle. Each general stays inside a 3 × 3 palace, and the two generals may not face each other on an open line. Red moves first, and cannons capture by jumping over exactly one piece. You can print a [xiangqi](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/xiangqi/) board for a table game.

## Five in a row

Gomoku, known in China as wuziqi (五子棋), is a game of getting five in a row. It is played on the intersections of a Go board, or with X and O on squared paper, and it is called gomoku in Japan. Its core rule is simple, which makes [gomoku](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/gomoku/) easy to teach to a newcomer.

## Tangram and nonograms

Tangram (七巧板) is cut from a square into seven pieces: five triangles, a square and a parallelogram. Chinese books described it in the early 1800s, and it became a craze in Europe and America around 1817.

Nonograms are picture logic puzzles devised in Japan in the late 1980s. The numbers beside each row and column give the lengths of the filled runs, and the solver works out the picture square by square. You can print a [nonogram](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/nonogram/) puzzle to try the method.

## Folded fortunes

The paper fortune teller is an origami game with many names, including cootie catcher in English, comecocos in Spain and 东南西北 ("east south west north") in Chinese. It is folded from one square sheet, and players choose numbers or colours to reveal a message. You can make one from a [fortune teller](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/fortune-teller/) sheet.

## Printing and playing with Paperoom

Paperoom is free, works in your browser and needs no account. The interface is available in Simplified Chinese and five other languages, and you can type your own words in any script. Choose A4 or US Letter, print at 100% scale with headers and footers off, and print one test sheet before a large batch.

## Games from this region

- [Xiangqi](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/xiangqi/): Chinese chess on a printed 9 × 10 board, with 32 cut-out pieces and a legend for the seven kinds of piece.
- [Gomoku and Go boards](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/gomoku/): Five-in-a-row boards and Go boards from 9 × 9 to 19 × 19, ready for pens, coins or beans.
- [Sudoku](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/sudoku/): Number puzzles from gentle 4 × 4 grids to classic 9 × 9, each with exactly one solution.
- [Nonogram](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/nonogram/): Fill in squares to match the numbers and reveal a hidden picture. Choose 5 × 5, 10 × 10 or 15 × 15, with answer keys.
- [Paper fortune teller](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/fortune-teller/): Fold a cootie catcher with four colours and eight fortunes you write yourself. Each copy uses a different order.
- [Bulls and cows](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/bulls-and-cows/): A code-breaking game for two: guess your partner's secret number from the A and B clues, with optional solo practice.
- [Dominoes](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/dominoes/): Dotted double-six or double-nine tiles, or word-loop tiles that teach any question and answer pair.
- [Ludo](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/ludo/): Four coloured yards and a race round the cross. Print the board, counters and a paper die, then roll for a six.
- [Score sheets](https://paperoom.yunusemrevurgun.com/score-sheets/): Score pads for card and tile games: a plain table for any game, or a tally board for truco, with a few common presets.

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