A board game for two to six players who attempt to move marbles or counters from one corner to the opposite one on a star-shaped board.
‘Also try some traditional board games such as draughts, chess, Chinese chequers, word games, card games and quiz-type games, as well as the more complex fantasy games.’
‘Finally, five days after her birthday, she headed back downstairs just after lunch with a box in her hands filled with the game board for Chinese checkers as well as a sack of marbles.’
‘She returned with her Chinese checkers board and sack of marbles and then proceeded to set the game up between them.’
‘The dots were evenly spaced and arranged in crisscrossing rows, forming a perfect six-sided figure that resembled the center of a board of Chinese checkers [see lower photograph on page 53].’
‘We went to my grandmother's house on Saturday afternoons for endless games of gin rummy, Parcheesi, and Chinese checkers.’
‘They don't even have a game of Chinese checkers, do they?’
‘While Fiona and Dom were having a blast at the prom, Lillian and Vivian spent the night playing their favorite game, Chinese checkers.’
‘Like a game of Chinese checkers, not only were parallel avenues shut down, but alternating streets.’
‘Nathaniel and Gail were in the middle of yet another game of Chinese checkers just as the clock struck seven o'clock.’
‘What did he think the kids were going to do - play Chinese checkers?’
‘She was rolling marbles down a slide she'd constructed from one of Nathaniel's spare blankets, aggrieved that they could no longer play Chinese checkers because of Nathaniel's ailing condition.’
‘And later that evening, much to the annoyance of the grown-ups, I challenged him to Chinese checkers, which I had never lost.’
‘The final shots are of the humans spoon feeding the beast, fixing the ship and - dear God, here it comes - playing Chinese checkers together.’
‘We still regularly crush them in Chinese checkers and Yahtzee, don't we?’
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