Chinese Checkers

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📖 How to Play Chinese Checkers

Objective

Move all 10 of your marbles from your starting triangle into the opposite goal triangle.

How to Play

  • Play with 2-4 players. Each player starts in a colored home triangle and aims for the triangle directly across the star board.
  • On your turn, select one of your marbles. The board highlights every legal destination for that marble.
  • You may step to an adjacent empty hole, or hop over one occupied hole into an empty hole beyond it.
  • Hop moves can chain across the board in one turn. You do not have to hop if a simple step is better.
  • Any marble, yours or another player's, can be used as the middle marble for a hop.

How to Win

The first player whose 10 marbles fill their opposite goal triangle wins as soon as the winning move lands.

Tips

  • Build paths that let your marbles make long hop chains.
  • Move pieces out of your home triangle so the rest are not blocked.
  • Watch opponents' goal triangles and avoid giving them easy jumps when you can.