Players take turns moving a single piece, either by moving one step in any direction to an adjacent empty space, or by jumping in one or any number of available consecutive hops over other single pieces. In "hop across", the most popular variation, each player starts with their colored pieces on one of the six points or corners of the star and attempts to race them all home into the opposite corner. (On bigger star boards, 15 or 21 pieces are used.) Each player has 10 pieces, except in games between two players when 15 are sometimes used.
The aim is to race all one's pieces into the star corner on the opposite side of the board before opponents do the same. HistoryĪ single move can consist of multiple hops each piece hopped must be directly adjacent, and hops can be in any direction. The rules are simple, so even young children can play. Like other skill-based games, Chinese checkers involves strategy. The remaining players continue the game to establish 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and last place finishers. The objective is to be first to race one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped board into "home" - the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner - using single-step moves or moves that jump over other pieces. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the American game Halma. Another popular format uses colored pegs in holes.Ĭhinese checkers (US spelling) or Chinese chequers (UK spelling) is a board game of German origin which can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. A typical pitted-wood gameboard using six differently colored sets of marbles.
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