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Chinese checkers

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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.

Etymology

Origin of Chinese checkers

First recorded in 1935–40

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