Halma Games
Halma has given its mechanics to a small family of games, here called halma games for convenience. These are games of skill in which each player must get their pieces to the opposite end of the board. Movement is to adjacent spaces, with a non-capturing, multiple jump move which can be used to move pieces over longer distances in a single move.
Chinese Checkers
Chinese checkers is a race game for two, three, four or six players. Unlike most race games, performance is dictated completely by skill rather than any luck element. Players race their pieces from their starting positions, across the board to the opposite end. Pieces move to adjacent spaces, but may also jump over one another like in draughts (though without capturing). It is in the construction of long "ladders" of pieces that may be jumped that a player gets ... (read more...)
Grasshopper
The game of halma, whose name means "jump" in Greek, is an entertaining product of the Victorian era. An 18th century gaming board marked out like a halma board suggests it may have earlier origins, but it was not until the 1880s that it was published and came to the attention of the wider world. The object of the game is to race your pieces to the opposite corner of the board, before your opponent can do the same, ... (read more...)
Halma
The game of halma, whose name means "jump" in Greek, is an entertaining product of the Victorian era. An 18th century gaming board marked out like a halma board suggests it may have earlier origins, but it was not until the 1880s that it was published and came to the attention of the wider world. The object of the game is to get your pieces to the opposite corner of the board before your opponent(s) can do the same. ... (read more...)
Salta
Salta is a game of position, played with 15 special pieces per side on a 10x10 European draughts board. Pieces move and jump as in draughts, but the aim of the game is very different. The aim of the game is to get all of your pieces to the opposite side of the board. But the pieces are each marked by suit and number, and must arrive at their destinations in the same arrangement as they started the game. ... (read more...)
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Hi to anybody that can help! I have just inherited a woodern board game,which looks like a board for Halma, but it has only 15 squares in each dirrection. The squares are the same size as on a Halma board. This board has been hand made. It has a draw underneath, and would stand on top of a table. It has two pictures in inlade wood just decrative each end of the board,like a veenered picture. Has anybody got any clues as to what this board game could be.?
janice dawe - 19:40, 07/01/2018