SUMO RINGS
Sumo Kapow
 | Win a sumo fight |
 | Lose a sumo fight |
 | The purple ball! |
There are five different coloured sumo rings: red, blue, yellow, green and purple. Each has a different guard inside. To begin, the contestant picks a ball at random out of a box. The colour of the ball they pick corresponds to the colour of a ring, telling them which guard they must fight.
Now it's a straightforward sumo match. The fighters have to try and get their opponent on the ground or out of the ring to win.
Some guards are a lot easier to beat than others. Regular fighters include Spud (a guard in a big Konishiki Yasokichi head costume) who is the easiest to beat, Shin Suganuma (a weedy little guard), and pro sumo wrestler Shinoburyo (Porker) who is the hardest to win against.
Played
33
times; in episodes:
13-17, 23, 25, 26, 28, 33, 39, 43, 45, 49, 60, 62, 71, 73, 79, 83, 86, 87, 95, 96, 100, 106, 108, 112, 116, 118, 122, 123, 127
Variations
| Ep# |
| 13 |
Two-on-One
This this family version, both parent and child fight together against one guard. |
| 28, 73 & 116 |
Water Sumo
The same game as usual, except this time all the rings are platforms floating in the sea. |
| 96 |
Bum Sumo
After the contestant picks a ball to determine their opponent, both of them stand back-to-back on a small podium in a pond. When the fight begins, the guard and contestant have to try and push each other off by using only their backsides. The one who falls in the water is the loser. |
BGM:
"Sumo 1" - Columbia Nature Sound Project
| Ep# | Guards | |||||||||
| 13 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Great Gidayu | Papier Mache-kun | Shino- buryo |
| 14 | Shino- buryo |
Mimi Hagiwara | Yurei Yanagi | Michiru Jo | Great Gidayu |
| 15 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Kunihiko Katsura | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 16 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Great Gidayu | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 17 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Kunihiko Katsura | Ueda Umanosuke | Shino- buryo |
| 23 | Konishiki Doll | Michiru Jo | Mitsuyo Mura | Ueda Umanosuke | Shino- buryo |
| 25 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Konishiki Doll | Ueda Umanosuke | Shino- buryo |
| 26 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Great Gidayu | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 28 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Gima Makoto | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 33 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Kunihiko Katsura | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 39 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Mitsuyo Mura | Strong Kongou | Shino- buryo |
| 43 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Konishiki Doll | Ueda Umanosuke | Shino- buryo |
| 45 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Rakkyo Ide | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 49 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Obo Tsuchiyama |
Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 60 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Kunihiko Katsura | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 62 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Nakayama-kun | Ultra Mother | Shino- buryo |
| 71 | Rusher Itamae | Michiru Jo | Ueda Umanosuke | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 73 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Ueda Umanosuke | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 79 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 83 | Shin Suganuma | Youshichi Shimada | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 86, 87 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Shino- buryo |
| 95 | Shin Suganuma | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 96 | Rakkyo Ide | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 100 | Makoto Dainenji | Michiru Jo | Popcorn | Ueda Umanosuke | Large Fuji |
| 106 | Makoto Dainenji | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 108 | Rusher Itamae | Michiru Jo | Ueda Umanosuke | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 112 | Makoto Dainenji | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Rakkyo Ide | Large Fuji |
| 116 | Shinobu Kinjo | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 118 | Makoto Dainenji | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 122, 123 | Miki Handa | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Konishiki Doll | Large Fuji |
| 127 | Miki Handa | Michiru Jo | Animal Lesley | Dainenji Doll | Large Fuji |