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Chinese checkers

noun

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

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Origin of Chinese checkers

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby Chinese checkers

Chinese block, Chinese boxes, Chinese burn, Chinese cabbage, Chinese calendar, Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers, Chinese chess, Chinese Chippendale, Chinese copy, Chinese crescent
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