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Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), [1] known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. [2] The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma. [3]
One of the company's first hits was Chinese checkers, a game that Pressman acquired the rights to in 1928 after spotting the game on a trip to Colorado, and first marketed as "Hop Ching Checkers". [2] The company was an innovator in licensing games and toys from popular media, such as the Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy comic strips.
This category includes games that traditionally use marbles, even though other objects could be substituted without causing any difficulty, for example Chinese checkers. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Chinese Checkers, contrary to popular belief, was not invented in China, or, indeed, any part of Asia at all. It was actually invented in Germany under the name "Stern-Halma"!
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Collecting marbles continued to rise in popularity throughout America after the turn of the 20th century. [9] An article written in 1936 about marbles in America mentions the popularity among children of collecting them, an early documentation of the practice. [10] Lee was born on April 18, 1933, and died on March 8, 2024, in York, Nebraska. [11]