• Chinese checkers is a board game challenging players to move pegs across the board to capture victory. The board’s form is that of a six-sided star, with each triangle of the star either a home base or a destination base. The Chinese checkers board is made out of various types of wood, including teak.
  
  

Set Up

• Teak Chinese checkers is a game for two, three, four or six players to play. Each player chooses a color and places 10 pegs in the coinciding colored triangle, known as that player’s home base. With two players, home bases are triangles opposite each other. With three players, home bases are triangles equidistant on the board. When four people play the game, they pair off and choose triangles opposite each other. If six people play, all six triangles are used. The object of the game is to move all the pegs, one by one, into the destination base directly across from the player's home base.
  
  

Game Play

• The first player moves a peg into a connected adjacent empty hole on the board. Another option is to jump over other pegs on the board, similar to the game of checkers. A peg can jump over any other peg on the board as long as it is in an adjacent hole and the hole on the other side is empty. Jumping pegs is a strategic way to move a peg across the board quickly, because a player can jump as many pegs as possible in one turn. When a player finishes his turn, the next player makes his move. It is legal to move pegs into any spot on the board, including other triangles. When a peg reaches the destination base, players cannot move that peg out of the triangle again.
  
  

Winning the Game

• Teak Chinese checkers is won when a player moves all 10 of her pegs into the destination base. Players are encouraged not to leave pegs in their home bases to block opponents from winning the game. One way to prevent this is to allow a player to claim victory if she fills up all the holes in the destination triangle despite the opponent's leaving one of her own in the triangle.