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How to play
Chinese Checkers.

Chinese Checkers is a race to move your marbles into the triangle directly opposite you. You can take one small step, or connect several jumps in a single turn.

On this site, play free with 2–6 players: friends, family, bots, or a mix. Each player starts with 10 marbles. No downloads or sign-up.

01

Fill the opposite triangle

Be the first to get all 10 of your marbles into the 10 holes of your destination triangle. In a two-player game, it is where your opponent starts. On this site, games with more players continue to determine the finishing order.

You never capture or remove marbles. Every marble stays on the board, even when someone jumps over it.

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Choose a step or a jump

On your turn, choose one of your marbles. Move along any of the board’s six straight directions, including sideways or backwards. Every landing hole must be empty.

A red marble moves one step to the neighbouring empty hole

One step

Move into a neighbouring empty hole. That ends your turn.

A red marble jumps over a blue marble into the empty hole just beyond it

One jump

Jump over a marble into the empty hole just beyond it. You can jump over any colour, including your own.

Or keep jumping

After a jump, the same marble can jump again. You may change direction between jumps and stop when you choose. You cannot add a step to a jump chain or switch to another marble mid-turn.

In this game, tap End Turn when you are done jumping. A jump does not end your turn automatically, because you can always jump back.

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This game also allows longer jumps

Some versions of Chinese Checkers allow only jumps over a neighbouring marble. This site allows longer jumps too. The marble you jump over must be exactly halfway between your starting hole and your landing hole. All other holes along that straight line must be empty.

A longer jump: red marble, empty hole, blue marble, empty hole, empty landing hole. The blue marble is at the midpoint.
One empty hole before the blue marble, one after it, then land in the next empty hole. The two halves of the jump are equal.

You cannot jump over two marbles at once. The game highlights legal landing holes when you select a marble, so you do not need to count the distance yourself.

04

Bring someone to the table

  1. Choose Start a game, enter a name and choose the number of seats.
  2. Share the room link with friends, or add bots to open seats.
  3. Once everyone is seated, the host starts the game.
  4. Tap one of your marbles, then a highlighted empty hole to move.

For a hands-on introduction, open How to play on the homepage. It lets you practise a step, a jump and a chain without changing a real game.

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