Règles de Chinese checkers
Ten marbles across the star — two to six at the board.
Chinese checkers is the race across the six-pointed star: 121 holes, ten marbles a player, and one object — move all ten from your point of the star to the one opposite. A marble steps to a neighbouring hole or hops over any marble in the way, chaining hop after hop across the board, and nothing is ever captured. Two, three, four or six play, against the computer or online on a clock, under Standard or Long-jump rules.
Façons de jouer à Chinese checkers
Contre l’ordinateur
Choisissez votre camp et un niveau — Facile, Moyen ou Difficile — et jouez à Chinese checkers hors ligne. La partie est conservée dans votre navigateur, là où vous l’avez laissée.
En ligne, à la pendule
Créez un plateau, choisissez votre couleur, réglez une pendule d’une à soixante minutes — ou aucune — et partagez le code. Seule la pendule du joueur au trait tourne.
En 2D ou en 3D
Laissez le plateau à plat ou redressez-le : chaque pièce se dresse sur sa case, et vous pouvez basculer en pleine partie.
Sept plateaux, sept jeux de pièces
Feutre classique, marbre Renaissance, grès de l’âge de pierre, glacier, ambre jurassique, mare littorale et chambre médiévale, changeables en jouant.
🎯 But du jeu
Be the first to fill the camp opposite your own. When someone does, the game ends and everyone else is placed by how far their marbles have come.
🎲 Mise en place de Chinese checkers
- The board is a star of 121 holes: a hexagon of 61 in the middle and six points of ten.
- Two players sit opposite each other; three take every other point; four take two pairs of opposite points; six fill the star. Five cannot play.
- Each player fills their point of the star with ten marbles of their colour — Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple and Orange, in seat order.
- Choose Standard or Long-jump rules, and the engine’s level for any computer seats. Red, at the bottom, moves first.
▶ Comment jouer à Chinese checkers
- On your turn move one marble: a step to an adjacent empty hole, or a chain of hops.
- A hop jumps one adjacent marble — yours or anyone’s — into the empty hole directly beyond it. Hops chain: keep hopping with the same marble for as long as you can, and stop after any hop you like.
- Nothing is captured. Every marble hopped over stays where it is.
- A marble may pass through or rest in any part of the board, other players’ camps and its own included.
- Under Long-jump rules a hop may clear one marble at any distance along a line, landing the same distance beyond it, provided every hole between is empty. Long and short hops chain freely.
- A player with no legal move is skipped. Play passes in seat order.
📖 Guide détaillé
The star, and who sits where
- Six points of ten holes around a hexagon of sixty-one: 121 in all, numbered 1 to 121 from the top point down.
- Your target is always the point directly opposite your own.
- Two play across the board; three take alternate points so nobody is squeezed; four take two opposite pairs; six fill the star. Five is refused — the geometry has no fair seat for a fifth.
- The board turns so that your camp is at the bottom whichever seat you hold.
Steps, hops and chains
- A step is one hole in any of the six directions, into an empty hole.
- A hop clears one adjacent marble into the empty hole beyond. The marble hopped over can be any colour, and it stays put.
- A chain is hop after hop with the same marble, and you may stop after any of them — tap the marble to see every hole it can reach, then tap the one you want.
- Two chains that end in the same hole are the same move; the app plays the shortest path.
Long-jump rules
- Chosen before the game, beside the number of players. Standard is the default.
- Along any line, a marble may hop over one marble any distance away and land the same distance beyond it, as long as every hole in between is empty.
- Distance one is the ordinary hop, so every Standard move is still legal — the long game simply adds more.
- Long and short hops chain freely, and the game ends the same way.
How the game ends
- The first player to fill their target camp wins, and the game stops there.
- The others are placed at that moment: marbles already home count first, then the distance the rest still have to travel.
- Resigning takes you out of the race — you stay to watch, your marbles stay as obstacles, and you place below everyone still in. On a timed board, a clock that runs out does the same.
- When only one player is left in, they win.
Offline, online and the clock
- Offline you choose the number of players, the rules and the level, and every other seat is the computer. The game is kept in your browser between visits; Undo takes back your move and the computers’ replies.
- The computer takes a moment to think before each move — about a second — so a table with several computer seats plays at a human pace.
- Online you create a board for two to six, decide how many of the seats the computer takes, set a clock from one to sixty minutes or none, and share the code or an invite link.
- Every seat has its own clock, and only the seat to move is running.
Boards, 3D and sound
- The same seven boards as chess and draughts, and the same 2D/3D switch — the star tilts away from you and the marbles stand on their holes.
- On the Medieval board every move sounds: a step, the run of a hop chain, and a low bell at the end.
🏁 Comment on gagne à Chinese checkers
The first player to fill the opposite camp wins — all ten holes occupied, at least one by their own marble, so an opponent squatting there cannot block the win. Everyone else is placed by progress: more marbles home first, then the shorter distance still to go. A player who resigns or whose clock runs out drops out, places below everyone still in, and leaves their marbles on the board as obstacles.
❓ Chinese checkers — questions fréquentes
Combien de joueurs faut-il pour Chinese checkers ?
Chinese checkers se joue à 2–6. Les places que vous ne remplissez pas sont tenues par l’ordinateur, si bien qu’une partie démarre toujours.
Quand pourrai-je jouer à Chinese checkers ?
Chinese checkers est en développement. Le jeu arrivera dans Chess & Checkers by Vanikar™ et sera compris dans le même abonnement que les jeux de cartes, sans achat séparé.
Chinese checkers est-il compris dans mon abonnement ?
Oui. Un abonnement Card Games by Vanikar™ couvre les jeux de cartes, Chess & Checkers et les jeux de plateau, ainsi que tous les jeux publiés ensuite.
Y a-t-il de la publicité dans Chinese checkers ?
Non. Aucun jeu Vanikar™ n’a jamais porté de publicité, et aucun n’en portera.