Halma
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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 i
Simple wooden pawn-style playing pieces, often called "Halma pawns"
Rules of Halma as printed by Joseph Scholz Verlag, Mainz
Halma set from the 1890s, showing box and pieces
16×16 Halma board from the 1890s
Chinese checkers
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Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers, known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partn
Halma
…of draughts (checkers) but differs in that no opposing pieces are ever captured or otherwise withdrawn from the board, nor is jumping compulsory. Chinese Checkers, a variant of Halma, was originally published in 1892 as Stern-Halma (German for "Star Halma") and later renamed upon marketing to the United States…
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