Checkers:
Players: 2
Age: 5+
Setup Time: 10-60 seconds
Playing Time: 5-30 mins
Skills Required: tactics, strategy
Equipment: board, sets of checkers
The objective of the game is to capture all of the opponents pieces. The player that has no pieces left or cannot move loses the game. Only the dark squares of the board are used. Pieces move diagonally and opponents’ pieces are captured by jumping over them to an unoccupied square.
Chinese Checkers:
Players: 2-6
Age: 5+
Setup Time: 1 min
Playing Time: 10 mins – 2 hours
Skills Required: tactics, strategy
Equipment: board, 6 pointed star design of 121 indentations (holes), 6 sets of 10x coloured pieces (usually marbles or pegs)
The objective of the game is to place one’s pieces in the opposite corner by movng to an adjacent spot or jumping another piece.