Chinese Checkers

The board is a six-pointed star. Each player starts with ten marbles filling one point. The first to move all their marbles into the point straight across the board wins. You are Red, at the bottom, racing to the top.

Your turn

Move one marble, either:

• a step to any empty hole right next to it, or
• a jump over one marble next to it (yours or anyone's) into the empty hole just beyond, in a straight line. After a jump you may keep jumping from where you land, as many times as you like, and stop whenever you want.

You can't step and jump in the same turn. Jumped marbles are not captured: they stay where they are.

Tap a marble and every hole it can reach glows, including the end of every jump chain. Tap a glowing hole to move there.

A few limits

• You may jump through the other points, but you can't finish a move in a point that is neither your start nor your goal.
• Once a marble reaches your goal point, it stays inside it.
• If you have no move at all, you pass.

Winning

The first player to fill their goal point wins. If an opponent leaves marbles sitting in their starting point (which is your goal), you win once every other hole there holds one of yours.

Tips

• Long jump chains ("ladders") are the fastest way across. Line up marbles to build them.
• Don't leave a marble far behind: it will cost you many turns at the end.

The last move is traced on the board. Undo, the number of players and the other options are in the ⋯ menu.