This page aims to describe the basic 'rules' of dancheong decoration and to show how they work together. It also enumerates quite a few dancheong-related terms.

Translation

The following is a FAQ taken from the Japanese site www.janken.com. This site flourished during the jankenpon boom of the 80's. Unfortunately it is now long dead; some pointless and trivial realtor's homepage (or something equally banal) now occupies the 'janken' domain name. How ephemeral and vain a thing is Mankind!

www.janken.com was almost the only place on the web that attempted to collect together detailed Jan Ken Pon information in a readable form. I doubt that whoever wrote the content will mind me presenting a rough translation of his work for posterity -- so here it is:

You know how sometimes people play Snakes and Ladders -- or, as the case may be, Chutes and Ladders?

You know how people think it's a game of pure chance? Well, it is. Given that you're on a particular square, the number of turns before you land on the end square is determined completely by the roll of the dice, or by the spinning of the spinner, if you have an American set. Dice means gambling, you see, in the eyes of certain people, whereas spinners are safe and will not send you to Hell.

The chart below tells you, for each square on a standard Hasbro(tm) Chutes and Ladders(tm) board, how many turns you can expect to take before you get to the end.