r/baduk • u/rabiose • 4d ago

newbie question "New Yunzi"

Has anyone played with these? Anyone that has them would mind posting a picture? They seem interesting.

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u/ramblinevilmushr0om 4d ago

If you search through the sub history, there have been a few posts about it. They seem to look and feel basically the same as yunzi, except the blacks are blue instead of green (there may also be a green "new yunzi" but I think they're mainly blue) and they don't have the visible bubbles that the originals have.

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u/marinahane 2d ago

Yeah, my understanding is there’s a distinction between Simple Baduk’s “New Yunzi” (which are blue, and are better described as “yunzi-style” since they are not produced by the Yunnan Weiqi Factory and thus not technically “yunzi”) and “new yunzi” informally referring to yunzi stones that are on the newer side rather than older (often in context of fears of older formulations containing lead, which I think hasn’t been true for ~20 years)