Sugoroku Mutou ( manga ) Sugoroku Mutou is a character appearing in the " Yu - Gi - Oh ! " manga . This is the original depiction of Sugoroku Muto , known as Solomon Muto in most English media , as created by Kazuki Takahashi . Sugoroku is the grandfather of Yugi Mutou . He was once a gaming master , who used his skills to master many different games and recover the Millennium Puzzle from the Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh . He later opened a shop , Kame Game , where his family resided and he sold games to people in the area . Biography . Valley of the Kings expedition . Suguroku was a gaming master , who tried and won all sorts of games all over the world . At the age of 40 , he heard the legend spoken of amongst his companions , about the Shrine of the Game of Darkness said to be in Egypt . In the 1960s , Suguroku , along with Ahmet and Mushura visited the Valley of the Kings in Egypt . Here they entered the Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh , finding it laden with the corpses of previous trespassers . Each room inside the tomb was treated like a game . One such room contained statues swinging swords , along a maze over a bottomless pit . Suguroku realized that the statues only moved if the traveler did not show respect , which was shown in ancient Egyptian ways by putting one ' s left foot forward , as the heart is on the left side of the body . Suguroku led Ahmet and Mushura across the pit , but towards the end , Mushura panicked and ran , causing two of the statues to impale and kill him . With Mushura dead , Ahmet held a gun to Suguroku , intimidating Suguroku to not let that happen to him . In the final room , there was a bridge leading to the Pharaoh ' s treasure . Suguroku began to cross the bridge first with Ahmet pointing his gun at him . Once Suguroku got to the end , Ahmet fired at him , causing him to fall off the edge . With Suguroku hanging on with one hand , Amhet began crossing the bridge , but was consumed by a monster . The spirit of the Nameless Pharaoh appeared and helped Sugoroku up . Once he reclaimed his senses , Suguroku collected the treasure , which turned out to be the Millennium Puzzle . Devil ' s Board Game . Otogi asked Sugoroku to take him in as a disciple gamer . After a while , Otogi challenged Sugoroku to a Shadow Game for the ownership of the Millennium Puzzle , using the Devil ' s Board Game , where each player was to bet a number of years of their life , each time they moved their piece . Sugoroku won the game , resulting in Otogi aging 50 years in one night as his Penalty Game . Otogi swore revenge on Sugoroku through his son Ryuji . Later life . Suguroku got together with his wife , after sending her a love letter in the form of a jigsaw puzzle . He got a son , who married Mrs . Mutou , who together had his grandson , Yugi Mutou . Suguroku opened a game store , Kame Game , where he lived with Mrs . Mutou and Yugi . At around the age of 63 , he let Yugi have the Millennium Puzzle , to try solving it . Sugoroku was given the rare " Duel Monsters " card , " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " from an American gamer friend . School arc . When Sugoroku was 71 , Yugi was visited by Anzu Mazaki after school one day . Anzu was surprised to see Sugoroku alive , since Yugi had told her earlier that the Millennium Puzzle was a memento of his grandfather . Sugoroku yelled that he was not dead and Yugi corrected himself saying that it was going to be a memento . Sugoroku commented on how Anzu had grown since he last saw her , especially around her bust . As Yugi went upstairs to work on the puzzle , he insisted that the Puzzle is beyond human understanding and that the archaeologists who discovered it , died mysterious deaths with the last one uttering " The Shadow Game s " in his dying breath . However Yugi thought that the Shadow Games sounded awesome , so he still wanted to finish it and ran away from Sugoroku who tried to take it so he could sell it . The next day Sugoroku was visited by Katsuya Jonouchi , who returned a lost piece of the Puzzle and explained that Ushio was giving Yugi a hard time . After Yugi came close to finishing the Puzzle that day , Sugoroku gave him the piece , so he could complete it . Unbeknownst to Sugoroku and even Yugi , Yugi ' s body became host to a part of the Nameless Pharaoh ' s soul Dark Yugi , who was stripped of his memory and would occasionally take control of Yugi ' s body . One day , Yugi and Jonouchi brought Hiroto Honda to the shop , in search of a gift for the girl he had a crush on , Miho Nosaka . Sugoroku sold them a love jigsaw puzzle similar to the one he gave to Yugi ' s grandmother . Seto Kaiba entered the game shop one day and was surprised to see Sugoroku had a " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " . He tried to trade for and buy the card , but Sugoroku refused as he got it from a dear friend and its sentimental value was priceless . Kaiba later tried to steal the " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " , but was defeated by Dark Yugi in a Shadow Game of " Duel Monsters " and given the " Experience of Death " Penalty Game . Sugoroku ' s friend Professor Yoshimori , along with Curator Kanekura put on an Egyptian exhibition , The Art of Egypt , at the Domino City Museum , and Sugoroku , along with Yugi and Yugi ' s friends were all given free admission . Professor Kanekura died that day under suspicious circumstances , believed to have been for defiling a pharaoh ' s tomb . Yoshimori worried about this , but Sugoroku and the others came to visit him at the university to cheer him up . However Yoshimori became possessed by Shadi and started attacking the gang . Sugoroku got knocked - out in the struggle . Shortly after Dark Yugi defeated Shadi in the Trial of the Mind Shadow Game , Sugoroku woke - up and found everyone else on the roof . After Shadi left , he treated everyone a meal out . Death - T . Kaiba built a theme park , Kaiba Land in an attempt to get revenge on Yugi . He kidnapped Sugoroku , the night before the grand opening and faced him in a game of " Duel Monsters " at the opening ceremony . Although Sugoroku had his " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " , it proved no match for Kaiba ' s own three " Blue - Eyes White Dragons " and the Solid Vision holograms of the monsters proved too much for Sugoroku . After defeating Sugoroku , Kaiba tore up his precious " Blue - Eyes White Dragon " card and forces him into an artificial Penalty Game , using the holograms . Kaiba forced Yugi to go through Death - T , a series of games and amusement park rides intended to kill Yugi , in exchange for Suguroku ' s life . Before Yugi began , Sugoroku gives him his Deck to use to defeat Kaiba . Yugi defeated Kaiba in the end and Sugoroku was saved by emergency surgery . Duelist Kingdom . Maximillion Pegasus , the creator of " Duel Monsters " , sent Yugi a videotape inviting him to participate in his Duelist Kingdom tournament . Pegasus appeared on the tv screen and invited Yugi to Duel him on the spot . Dark Yugi wound up facing Pegasus in a Shadow Game of " Duel Monsters " . As a penalty for Dark Yugi ' s defeat , Pegasus trapped Sugoroku ' s soul in the video tape . Yugi entered the Duelist Kingdom tournament in the hopes of returning his grandfather to normal . Throughout the tournament he carried around a video camera , containing the tape Sugoroku was trapped in , so they could communicate . After Yugi and Dark Yugi defeated Pegasus , Sugoroku was returned to normal . Dungeon Dice Monsters . He said goodbye to Yugi before Yugi left , and was trying to look for Yugi along with his friends when he was missing . Battle City . He , along with Anzu and Honda , watched Jonouchi Duel in the Battle City preliminaries . When Bakura was injured , he took him in to the hospital . Sugoroku then called Yugi and his friends to tell them that Bakura had gone missing . Ceremonial Battle . He watched the Ceremonial Battle , witnessing Atem ' s departure to the afterlife .