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Chinese checkers

noun

  1. a board game for two to six players each of whom has ten marbles resting in holes on their section of a six-pointed star: the winner is the first to move all of their own marbles to the opposite side by jumping intervening pieces or moving to adjacent holes that are unoccupied.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chinese checkers1

First recorded in 1935–40

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