Sorry That's the Wrong Answer - Answer 7

Question 7: Where did Chinese checkers originate?

The correct answer is:

Chinese checkers did not originate in China; rather the game with colored marbles in a star-shaped board is a modern version of a nineteenth-century English game called Halma, which became popular in the United States during the 1930s. Although the game of Chinese-checkers is played in China, it entered there from England via the United States and Japan.

The objective is to be first to race one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped gameboard into "home" - the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner - using single-step moves or moves which jump over other pieces. The others continue playing to establish 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and last place finishers. Like other skill-based games, Chinese checkers involves strategy. The rules are simple, so even young children can play.