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Chinese Checkers guide

Chinese Checkers best practices

Tips for playing well, the most useful first.

  1. Build ladders. Marbles lined up with one empty hole between them give you a chain of hops, so one marble can cross the board in a single turn.
  2. Hops go over marbles of any color. Your opponent’s marbles are stepping stones for you, and yours are for them. Notice which of your marbles hand them a long chain.
  3. Move your stragglers along with the rest. Your last marble decides when you finish.
  4. Don’t rush one marble far ahead on its own. It finds few marbles to hop over, and the rest still have to make the trip.
  5. Bring your back marbles out in good time. Leaving one at home to block doesn’t work in our game: the player whose target it is can still finish around it, and you can’t finish until it crosses.
  6. Watch your opponent’s route as well as your own. A single marble in a landing hole can break a long chain of hops.