Because we will be instructing you on how to play the games. In Chinese Checkers, how do you play? What are the rules, and how do you get started? So, take a seat and blow the dust off that old chess board. Alternatively, you may be unfamiliar with the game and wish to become acquainted with it because of the game board’s attractive appearance. The Easy Set-UpĪssume you’ve come upon an old Chinese Checkers board that you used to own as a child and want to play, but you have no idea how to play. (Fun fact: Chinese Checkers was invented in the United States, not China.) Indeed, it was developed in Germany (around the year 1892). Because we will be instructing you on how to play the instrument. What are the Chinese Checkers rules, and how do you go about playing them? So, take a seat and blow the dust off that old wooden board. Or, perhaps you’ve never played it before and want to learn how to play it since the game board is so exciting to look at. So you’ve dug up that old Chinese Checkers board you used to have as a kid and want to play, but you have no idea how to play since you don’t remember how to play. It was originally called Stern-Halma in Germany and then Hop Ching Checkers in the United States.How to Play Chinese Checkers? (Rules & Instructions) The name Chinese Checkers was just a marketing play when the game was brought to America.The game has little to do with normal checkers, but comes from a game called Halma.The game was not invented in China, but rather in Germany.Is often played with the youngest player getting the advantage.Ħ players - each player has a separate color of marbles and tries to move them to the opposite corner. One player will have an empty space opposite, giving them the advantage. Two opposite sides are left open.ĥ players - this is sometimes not considered a legal option. If using 2 sets, then the players set up their colors on opposite sides and must move their colors to their own opposite side.Ĥ players - this way is standard Chinese checkers. If using 1 set, then the players must move to the opposite empty star point. You can also play with multiple sets of marbles where each player plays 2 or 3 sets or colors of marbles and has to move all of them across the board to win.ģ players - 3 players can be played with 1 or 2 sets of marbles. You can move in any direction.ĭepending on the number of players there are different ways to play Chinese checkers:Ģ players - with two players you move all your marbles across the board to other player's start point. You do not have to hop over a marble if you don't want to. You can hop over your own or your opponent's marbles. See the blue path of hops in the picture below for an example. You can only jump over 1 marble at a time (for example you can't jump over 2 marbles that are next to each other), but you can do multiple jumps on the same turn as long as the hops are all lined up. The marble can be moved to an adjacent open space or may jump over other marbles that are right next to the marble. When a player takes a turn, they may move one marble. The object of the Chinese checkers is to get all of your marbles to the opposite point of the star.
Each player has 10 colored marbles that start out inside the point of the star. There are lots of places in the star where marbles fit.
We'll discuss the most popular way called the "hop across" version here.Ĭhinese Checkers uses a special board that looks like a six pointed start. There are some different ways to play the game. Chinese Checkers is a fun game to play with 2 to 6 players.
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