chinese checkers

     

Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers is a boar game that can be played by two to six people. The objective of the game is to place one's pieces in the corner opposite their starting position of a pitted 6-pointed star by single moves or jumps over other pieces. There are 121 marble slots on a Chinese checker board.

Trivia about chinese checkers

  • Its board is a 6-pointed star, on which each player starts with 10 marbles
  • Now called this, it was introduced around 1928 as Hop Ching checkers
  • Game using a 6-pointed star board, marbles & holes
  • In this "Checkers" game, the board is a 6-pointed star, & every player starts with 10 marbles