Chinese Checkers

How to play

You play the bottom-pointing triangle. Each turn either step a marble into an adjacent empty hole, or jump it over a neighbor (yours or any opponent's) to the empty hole on the far side. After a jump you may chain another jump from the new position. Click Done jumping to end your turn voluntarily; if no further jumps are possible the chain ends automatically.

The first player to land all 10 of their marbles in the opposite triangle wins. Once a marble enters its goal triangle it cannot leave — no shuffling pegs back and forth to stall.

• 2 players — head-to-head across the board.
• 3 players — you plus two AIs at every-other points (classic 3-handed layout).
• 6 players — full board, you plus five AIs. Chaotic; longer games.

• Easy — depth 2 with extra randomness.
• Medium — depth 3.
• Hard — depth 4 with longest-chain ordering.