About Chinese Checkers
Chinese Checkers is the classic star game with the coloured marbles. It actually comes from Germany, where it was invented in the 1890s as a variant of Halma, but the Chinese name stuck. The board is a six-pointed star, and each player starts with ten marbles in their own point.
The aim is to move all your marbles into the point directly opposite. You can take a single step, or jump over a neighbouring marble – and then keep jumping from the new hole as far as you can. The long chains of jumps are what make the game so much fun, and it’s often the other players’ marbles that give you the perfect ladder.
On GameBase, the iPad lies in the middle of the table, and each player sits in front of their own triangle with their name facing them. When you tap a marble, the board shows every place you can reach – including the whole chain of jumps – and the marble hops all the way with one tap.
How to play
- Choose 2, 3, 4 or 6 players, and type in the names. Sit so each player is in front of their triangle.
- Tap one of your marbles. Yellow dots are a single step, and dots in your colour can be reached with a chain of jumps.
- Tap the place the marble should go. It hops all the way by itself.
- The first to fill the opposite triangle wins. If an opponent’s marble is sitting in your goal, it counts as filled.