Key facts
- Genres
- Board game Abstract strategy game
- Players
- 2–4, 6
- Playing time
- 10–30 minutes
- Chance
- None
- Age range
- 7+
- Skills
- Strategy, tactics
- Synonyms
- Star halma Sternhalma Hop Ching checkers Tiaoqi ("jump chess")
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- board game
- Subclass of
- Halma
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Image
- Halma-Spielfeld.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1892-00-00
- maximum number of players
- 6
- minimum number of players
- 2
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- Chinese checkers
- Commons category
- Chinese checkers
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chinese checkers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.