History

• Chinese Checkers is not Chinese at all, in fact, it is not even Asian. The game as we know it today was first published by the English company, Spears and Sons, in 1909, and was based on a game created by a Harvard professor in 1885.
  
  

Game Board

• The game board looks like a six-pointed star and consists of a hexagon in the middle with six triangles, all different colors, attached to the six sides of the hexagon. Each triangle holds 10 game pieces. Each side of the hexagon has five holes.
  
  

Game Pieces

• The game pieces themselves are usually marbles, but some games use pegs. There should be 60 game pieces--10 each of six different colors.
  
  

Object

• You win the game by being the first player to move all 10 of your pieces from the starting triangle to the triangle opposite it on the board.
  
  

Moving Pieces

• Players take turns moving a single piece of their own color. Pieces may be moved in any direction. During a turn, a player may move a piece to an adjacent, vacant hole, or he may "hop" over other pieces, including his own. In order to "hop," the piece being moved must be adjacent to the piece being "hopped" and must land in a vacant space on the other side of the piece that was hopped. Multiple hops are possible with the same piece during one turn. The turn ends when there are no legal hops left to make. Play is then passed to the next player.
  
  

Debated Rule

• There is a debate among Chinese Checkers players as to whether or not you can leave a piece in your triangle to "block" the other pieces and your opponent. No conventional rules for this have been established so players should agree before game play begins.