Chinese checkers
A typical pitted-wood gameboard using six differently colored sets of marbles. Another popular format uses colored pegs in holes. | |
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| Players | 2–4, 6 |
| Playing time | 10–30 minutes |
| Chance | None |
| Age range | 7+ |
| Skills | Strategy, tactics |
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Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma.
The objective is to be first to race all of 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 remaining players continue the game to establish second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-, and last-place finishers.