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Chinese checkers
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chinese checkers Chinese Checkers
English
Alternative forms
en Chinese Checkers chinese checkers US spelling
en Chinese chequers UK spelling
Noun
- en US spelling
A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
en 2007 Vernon Chatman Vernon Chatman Xavier Xavier: Renegade Angel Xavier: Renegade Angel 1 4 This is no longer a clue. It's a game. You may have just gotten checkmate, but we're playing Chinese checkers, and as my old friend Confucius say; the hunter has become the hunter-ed. The chaser has become the chosed. Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked. It seems the portrait has painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed. But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby.
Translations
board game
Catalan: ca dames xineses
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 跳棋 tiu3 kei4-2, yue 波子棋 bo1 zi2 kei4-2
Mandarin: cmn 跳棋 tiàoqí
Finnish: fi kiinanšakki, fi tähtihalma
French: fr dames chinoises
German: de Halma f
Icelandic: is kínaskák f
Irish: ga táiplis Shíneach f
Japanese: ja ダイヤモンドゲーム daiyamondogēmu
Polish: pl trylma f
Russian: ru кита́йские ша́шки f-p, ru ха́лма f, ru ха́льма f
Spanish: es tablero chino m, es damas chinas f-p
Swedish: sv kinaschack n
Zhuang: za geizdiuq
en Board games