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Inori offers Shu the Guilty Crown(a form of the Cat's Cradle) in the first
episode. Is the Cat's Cradle variant Jacob's Ladder?

[![The Guilty Crown \(A form of the Cat's Cradle\) Inori
offers.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NnoTA.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NnoTA.jpg)


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Is the Guilty Crown(Cat's Cradle) that Yuzuriha Inori offers Ouma Shu Jacob's Ladder?


**Yes, the[string figure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_figure) Inori
offers is [4-step Jacob's Ladder](https://www.wikihow.com/Make-
Jacob%27s-Ladder-out-of-String).**

In Japan, the hobby is known as
[_ayatori_](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B6%BE%E5%8F%96%E3%82%8A). Also, in
_ayatori_ term, the string figure Inori offers is called
[_hashigo_](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%A2%AF%E5%AD%90) (ladder), specifically
_4-dan hashigo_ (4-step ladders).


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From [Xspy70's post about "Guilty Crown Ending Explanation/Interpretation" on
MyAnimeList
Forums](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1408286#msg41020000),

> The shape that Inori and Mana present to Shu in the beginning of the anime
> using strings is called Jacob's Ladder. It represents the staircase to
> heaven according to the book of Genesis. By asking Shu to take it, they
> imply that he should accept the (guilty) crown and be the king of the new
> world. In the end however, Inori, using the life strings, gives him a shape
> of an open eye (or Cat's Eye, from a string game called Cat's Cradle). When
> Shu takes it, the eye shape "closes" (Fish in a Dish string figure). Aside
> from being a foreshadowing of the rest of his life, a closed eye also means
> he is relieved from his unwanted duty of being the king. Closed eye (which
> also means blind) also means innocence. The Innocence that Shu was striving
> for for so long. It was his redemption from the responsibilities he never
> wanted to take. It meant he no longer had to be the king. It meant that he
> should no longer be "guilty."


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