Chinese Checkers
跳棋 · Hop across the night-market table
The game loads when you press play.
- Free
- No ads
- No account needed
- No install — plays in your browser
About the game
The classic star-board marble game in 3D: hop your marbles across a night-market table against cute animal opponents, 2 to 6 players, with teams, a 12-stage campaign and a guided tutorial.
Chinese Checkers (跳棋) is the classic star-shaped marble race: step or hop every marble across the board into the opposite corner before anyone else. Play it on a lacquered board at a lantern-lit Taiwanese night-market table, against a cast of cute animal opponents: a Formosan black bear, a fox, a sika deer, a koala, a Shiba pup, a cat, a rabbit and a red panda. Each has a name, a personality and a few things to say.
Hop over any marble, chain hops into long runs, build ladders for your own marbles and block the opponents' ladders. Play 2, 3, 4 or 6 players, free-for-all or in teams (2 against 2, 2v2v2 or 3 against 3), on the full 10-marble board or the fast 6-marble one, with Super jump and a Blocker rule as options. Four computer levels (Rookie, Regular, Expert, Master) look at the board exactly the way you do.
The Night Market Circuit is a twelve-stage campaign through Shilin, Tamsui, Jiufen and Kenting with three stars a stage, and unlocks new animals, tablecloths and marbles. A six-lesson interactive tutorial teaches hopping, chains and ladders on the real board, and a hint button explains its suggestion. Look from anywhere: orbit, zoom, pan and turn the board, or jump to a preset view, including a close-up. Twelve languages, controller and keyboard support, no network needed.
How to play
- Move all your marbles from your corner across the board into the opposite corner. The first side to fill its target triangle wins.
- On your turn move one marble: either one step to a neighbouring empty hole, or a hop.
- A hop jumps over one neighbouring marble (any colour, nothing is captured) into the empty hole straight behind it. After a hop you may hop again with the same marble, and you may stop after any hop.
- With 4 or 6 players you can play in teams. Partners sit opposite each other. A team wins when every member has filled their own target triangle.
- Fast: 6 marbles each on a smaller triangle. Super jump: a marble may hop over a distant marble if the same number of empty holes lies beyond it. Blocker rule: one stuck opponent marble in your goal does not stop you from finishing.
- The first side to fill its goal wins. If a game goes on for too long, the side that has travelled furthest wins.
Controls
| Touch | Touch: tap one of your marbles, then tap a glowing hole to move it there. |
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| Mouse | Mouse: click a marble, then click a glowing hole. Hover a hole to see the hop path. |
| Keyboard | Keyboard: arrow keys or WASD move the cursor, Enter selects, Esc goes back, C or V changes the view, H gives a hint, U undoes, Tab reaches the buttons. |
| Gamepad | Controller: D-pad or stick moves the cursor, A selects, B goes back, X gives a hint, Y changes the view, Start pauses, LB and RB step through your marbles. |
