In a turn, players move a single peg of their color to its adjacent hole or jumps over any peg to a vacant hole directly beyond it. The youngest player usually begins the game and the other players take their turn in a clockwise direction. He/She arranges all the 10 pegs in the holes of the corresponding triangle. To play the game, each player decides a color.
The destination triangle is called ‘home.’ The objective of the game is to be the first players to move all the 10 pegs across the opposite triangle by jumping over other pieces. The whole star shaped board is filled of holes each connected with straight lines to its adjacent holes. The interior of the board is a hexagon with five holes on each side. Each triangle is of a different colour and there are six sets of ten marbles/pegs with corresponding colours of the triangle. Each point of the star is an equilateral triangle consisting of ten holes (four holes on each side). The Chinese Checker board is in the shape of a six pointed star. Nevertheless, though this game did not originate in India, it is widely played by urban Indian kids since generations. However, many historians dispute the fact that the game originated in Germany and believe that it originated in United States itself. This game was invented in Germany as Halma, and later, the simplified version was named as Chinese Checkers in United States. Chinese Checkers is strategy board game played by 2 – 6 players and is best enjoyed by kids aged 7 years and above.