Chinese checkers

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of Chinese checkers

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

In early 2020, Rainville was grumbling to his staff about the surplus of Chinese checkers sets gathering dust in inventory.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

We had Chinese checkers and Risk, which no one played, and a shelf full of espionage thrillers with die-cut covers and content inappropriate for children.

From New York Times • May 28, 2021

This is kind of like Chinese checkers meets Battle Sheep.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2019

But just as Chinese checkers wasn’t invented in China, Australian shepherds aren’t from Australia, and freedom fries aren’t French, the Spanish flu did not originate in Spain nor did Spain bear the brunt of it.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2018

On the days that he would have lunch at the house, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez would linger on the begonia porch playing Chinese checkers with Amaranta.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez