Sternhalma, commonly known as Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma.
A typical pitted-wood gameboard using six differently colored sets of marbles. Another popular format uses colored pegs in holes.
playing Hop Ching checkers, Montreal, 1942
A three-player game
Halma is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854.
Simple wooden pawn-style playing pieces, often called "Halma pawns"
Rules of Halma as printed by Joseph Scholz Verlag, Mainz
16 x 16 Halma board from the 1890s
Halma board for three players, printed by Joseph Scholz Verlag, Mainz (undated)