The Millenium Items are fictional objects in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! and both anime series based off of the manga, Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (internationally known as simply Yu-Gi-Oh!).

The items are seven mystic items connected to the shadow games.

In the manga and anime, all of the Items may perform a "Penalty Game" on a defeated opponent, either knocking them out, causing them pain, killing them, or another undesirable effect (In the English anime, a penalty game can send some or all of their mind to the Shadow Realm).

In the manga, the items were created after the village of Kul Elna in Egypt was massacred. The blood, flesh, and bones of the villagers were melted down with the gold that made the items.

Contents

1 Millennium Items in the anime and manga 1.1 Millennium Puzzle 1.2 Millennium Eye 1.3 Millennium Ring 1.4 Millennium Key 1.5 Millennium Rod 1.6 Millennium Tauk a.k.a. Millennium Necklace 1.7 Millennium Scales 1.8 The Pharaoh's Lost Memories 2 Millennium Items in the second Yu-Gi-Oh! movie 2.1 Pyramid of Light

Millennium Items in the anime and manga

Millennium Puzzle

Owner: Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the English anime)
Egyptian Owner: The Pharaoh (Pharaoh Yami in the English anime)
Notes:

• Allows the owner to influence luck in random situations (Example: draw a particular card in a card game, make a flipped coin land on edge or a chosen side as desired).
• Can replace souls in their correct vessels if the locations of both are known and in close proximity.
• Holds the soul of the Pharaoh.

According to Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Moto in the English anime), the Puzzle was discovered in the beginning of the 20th century. A team of British archaeologists took it out of a pharaoh's crypt in the Valley of the Kings. The members later died mysterious deaths. The final words of the last man to die were, "The shadow games." It is later revealed in the comic book that in 1960, Sugoroku himself hired two guides to help him get inside a tomb that had not been infiltrated by anyone, but they both wanted to kill him so they could get it themselves. Both of them died along the way, but the spirit of the puzzle saved Sugoroku and hands him the puzzle. The discrepancy between the two accounts of the Millennium Puzzle's discovery in the manga is an example of a retcon. The hieroglyphics on the puzzle say, "The one who solves me shall gain the powers of knowledge and darkness..."

Millennium Eye

2nd Owner: Ryo Bakura
1st Owner: Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the original Japanese anime and manga)
Historical owner: Priest Akunadin
Notes:

• Allows the owner to read others' minds.
• Can posses a person's soul and trap it
• Ability to destroy minds

This Item was given to Pegasus after he came to Egypt searching for a way to bring his wife back to life. He gained the Millenium Eye after passing a test that Shadi placed upon him. After losing a Shadow Game to Bakura, Pegasus lost his Eye to him.

Millennium Ring

2nd Owner: Dark Marik (Yami Marik in the English anime)
1st owner: Ryo Bakura
Historical Owner: Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura in the English anime)
Notes:

• Holds the soul of the king of thieves, Bakura, a.k.a. Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura).
• Can displace souls into inanimate objects, such as cards or lead figures.
• Can take the soul of a card and bring its power to reality.

This Ring has wandered through history, going from owner to owner. The spirit within the Ring is a thief who is after all seven of the Millenium Items so as to gain ultimate power from them. Bakura recieved the Millenium Ring from his father, who had been on a trip to Egypt.

Millennium Key

Owner: Shadi
Historical Owner: Priest Shada
Notes:

• Allows the owner to gain access to the mind-chamber of a person, to read their mind or impose judgement.
• Owned by the family that guards the Millennium Items, it may allow the owner to sense the displacement in the Mystical energies that is caused by an Item being taken from its rightful owner.
• Can make the owner invisible, along with others if wished.

Millennium Rod

2nd Owner: Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the English anime)
1st Owner: Marik Ishtar
Historical Owner: Seto Kaiba the Egyptian sorcerer
Notes:

• Can possess someone's mind, allowing the owner to control someone.
• One of two Items that are owned by the guardians of the Pharaoh's tomb.
• May hold the Dark side of Marik.
• Contains a dagger inside (the dagger was edited out in the English anime)
• Can force a monster into a rock slab (Pharoah's memory)

Millennium Tauk a.k.a. Millennium Necklace

2nd Owner: Yugi Mutou
1st Owner: Ishizu Ishtar
Historical Owner: Priestess Isis
Notes:

• Can show images of the past and near future, that future can be influenced only by another Millennium Item.
• One of two Items that are owned by the guardians of the Pharaoh's tomb.

Millennium Scales

Owner: Shadi
Historical Owner: Priest Karimu
Notes:

• Can weigh a person's heart against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth; if the heart is heavier, Ammit, the monster of the abyss, will consume them. Ammit is a monster combining parts of a hippopotamus, a crocodile, and a lion.

The Pharaoh's Lost Memories

There is a forgotten cellar, deep underground in Egypt, that contains a stone with indentations for the Millennium Items. It is said that when all seven Items and the three Egyptian God Monsters are assembled in this place, the Pharaoh will regain his lost memories.

In addition to the seven in the manga and the anime, there is an eighth item in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie.

Millennium Items in the second Yu-Gi-Oh! movie

Pyramid of Light

Owner: Anubis
Historical Owner: Anubis
Notes:

• Can make monsters real.
• Can summon the Sphinx Cards.
• Can destroy Egyptian God Cards.

This item only exists in the movie released in North America and Europe, and it isn't even technically a Millenium Item. It was a failed attempt to recreate the Millenium Puzzle.