Chinese checkers
Overview
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
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 Halma
Halma
Halma is a board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks. The inspiration was an English game called Hoppity, which was devised in 1854....
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The objective is to be first to race one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped game board into "home"—the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner—using single-step moves or moves which jump over other pieces.
