Making single moves without hopping would not help much to win the game. The best players would be able to set up their own pegs or use others’ pegs to make as many hops as possible until it reaches its destination. Each hop may be over any coloured peg including the player’s own. Where a hopping move is made, each hop must be over an adjacent peg and into the vacant hole directly beyond it (on the same straight line). In one turn one peg may either be simply moved to an adjacent hole or it may make one or two hops over other pegs. Players take turns to move a single peg of their own colours. In a three player game the pegs will start in three triangles equidistant from each other.Įach player chooses a colour and the 10 pegs of that colour are placed in the same coloured triangle. For the six-player game, all pegs and triangles are used if there are four players, play starts in two pairs of opposing triangles and a two-player game should also be played from opposing triangles. The game can be played by two, three, four, or six players. Each triangle is a different colour and there are six sets of ten pegs with corresponding colours. The interior of the board is a hexagon with each side five holes long. Each point of the star is a triangle consisting of ten holes (four holes to each side). The Chinese Checkers board is in the shape of a six pointed star. Now the board can be made with anything, from cardboard, wooden board with holes for pegs or just plain paper or plastic sheet.įigure 1: Chinese Checkers with Wooden Board or Paper Board Everyone, young or old, knows how to play it.Īctually it was invented in the 1920s in America but more based on an earlier Victorian game called Halma, which is played on a square 16×16 chequer board. The only thing related to China, I guess, might be its popularity in China. In Chinese, it is simply called Hop Ching. I don’t know why it is called Chinese checkers in English.
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