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Within Vinony's link graph, Chinese checkers is referenced by 55 other articles, and connects out to Japanese, chess and Chinese.
Vinony files it under 1892 in Germany, 1892 introductions and Abstract strategy games.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
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")
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- Commons gallery
- 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.