CHCHMB | CHINESE CHECKERS IN METAL BOX

Chinese checkers (U.S. and Canadian spelling) or Chinese chequers (UK spelling),1 is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.2 The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma.3

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.4 The rules are simple, so even young children can play