Corner Game
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The Corner Game (Korean: 구석놀이), also known as Square (Japanese: スクエア, Hepburn: Sukuea) or Four Corners Game (simplified Chinese: 四角游戏; traditional Chinese: 四角遊戲), is an urban legend game circulated in East Asia. The game requires four players and can allegedly summon a supernatural entity.[1]
The origin of the game is unclear. Lucia Peters, author of The Ghost In My Machine, says the game may be "Korean in origin".[1] According to Japanese author Hirouji Matsuyama, however, the game is based on a Japanese story in which one of the five climbers was killed on a snowy mountain before a snowstorm broke out. The remaining four people carried his body to a hut without heating, and then the four people played the game in the house to summon the soul of the dead to shelter them until the rescue team arrived.[2] Some medias in China and Taiwan also claim that the game originated in Japan.[3][4]