Knowing this information helps you decide if an early Halma set is complete, since there will be a different piece count for three of the four colors.)Ĭlick on Halma for a more complete history of the game. The number of pieces each player has depends on the number of players: 19 each in a two-player game and 13 each in a four-player game (and yet another figure for the three-player game). ![]() Early British instructions for the game re-emphasized this point. What made the game so unusual for the period was the fact that the jumped pieces were not removed from the board. A piece can be moved either one space to an adjacent, unoccupied space, or any number of spaces, by jumping over pieces – your own or your opponents – one at a time. Halma is a race game for two or four players – with a rarely described variation for three – played on a square board the object is for each player to get his pieces from his home base in one corner to the opponent’s base in the corner diagonally opposite. The creator, George Howard Monks, a thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, devised Halma around 1883 or ’84 after returning from a trip to England. Its story is certainly international.Ĭhinese Checkers had its roots in the game of Halma, which was based on the British game of Hoppity (from 1854) but was invented in the United States. ![]() But the game is not Chinese, it is not a form of checkers, and it has been played in Germany since 1892, if not earlier. The game of Chinese Checkers was first sold in the United States under that name in the late 1920s or early ‘30s.
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