Chinese Checkers
Board Games · 8 playsChinese Checkers
Hop your ten pegs across the star-shaped board and fill the opposite triangle before the others.
Quick start
Select one of your pegs; glowing holes show where it may go. Move one space to an adjacent empty hole, or leap a touching peg into the gap past it. Keep jumping in the same turn as long as hops are available. Occupy every hole of the far triangle before anyone else.
Controls: Tap or click
About this game
A colourful star of holes, ten pegs each, and a race to the far side. Your pegs begin in one point of the star, and you need to move them all into the triangle directly opposite. On each turn move one peg, either a single step into a neighbouring hole or by jumping over another peg, yours or anyone else’s, into an empty hole beyond. Jumps can chain, so one clever peg can leap a long way in a single turn. Set up a game with one, two, three or five computer rivals and race to settle into the far point first. Free to play in your browser, with no download and no sign-up.
Family tips
Build ladders. Leaving pegs spaced one gap apart in a line lets your back pegs hop along them in long chains, carrying a peg halfway across the star in one go.
Don’t leave pegs behind. A lone straggler at the back has nothing to jump over and can take many slow single steps to catch up, so bring the rear pegs forward early.
Watch how opponents could use your pegs too. A well-placed peg might give a rival a long jump, so sometimes it’s worth a move that helps you without opening a path for them.
