Play Chinese Checkers online free — vs the computer or a friend
Play Chinese Checkers online, free
Race all ten pegs across the star to the opposite point — hop over pegs for chain jumps. Play the computer or a friend on the same screen, right in your browser.
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How to play
Move a peg to a neighbouring empty hole, or jump over adjacent pegs (chain multiple jumps!). First to move all 10 pegs into the opposite triangle wins.
How to play Chinese Checkers well
Short guides to the rules that catch people out and the habits that win games.
Chinese Checkers strategy
Build a ladder, jump it, and refuse to leave stragglers behind. The three ideas that decide almost every game of Chinese Checkers, explained with the moves.
Jumping and jump chains
How jumps work, why a chain of them counts as one move, and how to set up the long hops that decide games. The rule that makes Chinese Checkers a strategy game.
Finishing the race
Most games are lost in the last ten moves. How to fill your goal triangle back to front, avoid stranded pegs, and finish the race you were winning.
Chinese Checkers is not checkers
Different board, different pieces, no captures and no relation. What Chinese Checkers actually is, where the name came from, and why it is not Chinese.
Or learn Xiangqi, the game this site is built around.