Chinese Checkers

Chinese Checkers is a racing game for 2, 3, 4, or 6 players played on a six‑pointed star board. Each player starts with ten pegs in a home triangle and races to move all of them into the triangle directly opposite. The first player to fill the opposite triangle wins.

Be the first to move all ten of your pegs from your home triangle into your target triangle — the triangle on the far side of the star, directly opposite your home.

The board is a hexagram (six‑pointed star) with 121 positions: a central hexagon of 61 holes and six triangular points of 10 holes each. Every position connects to up to six neighbours (the star uses hex adjacency, not squares).

Each player's home triangle and target triangle are colour‑coded to match their pegs, so you can always see where you started and where you are heading.

The board seats 2, 3, 4, or 6 players. Pegs are placed so that every player races into the triangle opposite their own — which may be empty or may be a rival's home that empties as they move out:

2, 3, 4, and 6 are the standard, symmetric configurations — the six-pointed star has no clean opposite-triangle assignment for five players, so a 5-player game is not offered.

Each player begins with 10 pegs filling their home triangle. Players take turns in order.

On your turn you move one peg, in one of two ways:

After a jump you may jump again with the same peg if another jump is available, and keep chaining jumps for as long as you like. Chaining is optional: you may stop after any jump by choosing Stop, which ends your turn. A single well‑placed chain of jumps can carry a peg clear across the board.

You may not mix a step and a jump in the same turn, and you may not switch pegs in the middle of a chain.

The first player to get all ten of their pegs into their target triangle wins the race. Because pegs are never captured, the game always produces a winner — it is purely a race.