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    Chinese Checkers Rules: Equipment

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    Chinese Checkers is played on a star-shaped board with six triangles. Each player gets 10 marbles of a color that start in their triangle. The objective is to move all marbles across the board into the opposite triangle. Players take turns hopping their marbles over others into empty spaces, with the goal of being the first to occupy all holes in their destination triangle to win. There is debate around blocking opponents from winning by occupying holes in their triangle, and alternative rules are suggested to resolve this.

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    Chinese Checkers is played on a star-shaped board with six triangles. Each player gets 10 marbles of a color that start in their triangle. The objective is to move all marbles across the board into the opposite triangle. Players take turns hopping their marbles over others into empty spaces, with the goal of being the first to occupy all holes in their destination triangle to win. There is debate around blocking opponents from winning by occupying holes in their triangle, and alternative rules are suggested to resolve this.

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    Chinese Checkers is played on a star-shaped board with six triangles. Each player gets 10 marbles of a color that start in their triangle. The objective is to move all marbles across the board into the opposite triangle. Players take turns hopping their marbles over others into empty spaces, with the goal of being the first to occupy all holes in their destination triangle to win. There is debate around blocking opponents from winning by occupying holes in their triangle, and alternative rules are suggested to resolve this.

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    Chinese Checkers Rules: Equipment

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    Chinese Checkers is played on a star-shaped board with six triangles. Each player gets 10 marbles of a color that start in their triangle. The objective is to move all marbles across the board into the opposite triangle. Players take turns hopping their marbles over others into empty spaces, with the goal of being the first to occupy all holes in their destination triangle to win. There is debate around blocking opponents from winning by occupying holes in their triangle, and alternative rules are suggested to resolve this.

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    Chinese Checkers Rules

    Equipment

    The Chinese Checkers board is in the shape of a six pointed star. Each point of the star is a triangle consisting of ten holes (four holes to
    each side). The interior of the board is a hexagon with each side five holes long. Each triangle is a different colour and there are six sets
    of ten marbles with corresponding colours.

    Preparation

    Chinese Checkers can be played by two, three, four or six players. Obviously, for the six player game, all marbles and triangles are used.
    If there are four players, play starts in two pairs of opposing triangles and a two player game should also be played from opposing
    triangles. In a three player game the marbles will start in three triangles equidistant from each other.

    Each player chooses a colour and the 10 marbles of that colour are placed in the appropriately coloured triangle.

    Objective

    The aim of the game is to be the first to player to move all ten marbles across the board and into the triangle opposite.

    Play

    A toss of a coin decides who starts. Players take turns to move a single marble of their own colour. In one turn a marble may either be
    simply moved into an adjacent hole OR it may make one or more hops over other marbles. Where a hopping move is made, each hop
    must be over an adjacent marble and into the vacant hole directly beyond it. Each hop may be over any coloured marble including the
    player's own and can proceed in any one of the six directions. After each hop, the player may either finish or, if possible and desired,
    continue by hopping over another marble. Occasionally, a player will be able to move a marble all the way from the starting triangle
    across the board and into the opposite triangle in one turn!

    Marbles are never removed from the board. It is permitted to move a marble into any hole on the board including holes in triangles
    belonging to other players. However, once a marble has reached the opposite triangle, it may not be moved out of the triangle - only
    within the triangle.

    Finishing

    The first player to occupy all 10 destination holes is the winner.

    Debate has always arisen over the situation where a player is prevented from winning because an opposing player's marble occupies one
    of the holes in the destination triangle. Many game rules omit to mention this implying that it is perfectly legal to block opponents in this
    dubious fashion.

    Alternative Rules
    The following additional rule which should be wide enough to capture all such situations: If a player is prevented from moving a marble
    into a hole in the destination triangle because of the presence of an opposing marble in that hole, then instead of playing in the usual way,
    the player is entitled to swap the opposing marble with that of his own marble.

    Alternatively, you can just say that should one or more of the holes in the target triangle contain a marble belonging to another player, this
    does not prevent a player from winning. The game is simply won when all the available points within the triangle are occupied.

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