Halma

Each side has a camp of ten pieces in one corner. The goal is to be first to move every one of your pieces into the opposite corner, your opponent's camp. A piece may step to an adjacent empty square, or jump over any single neighboring piece (yours or theirs) into the empty square beyond.

Jumps can chain: from a landing square you may jump again, hopping clear across the board in a single turn. There are no captures, pieces you jump stay put.

• Move one step in any of the eight directions, or jump an adjacent piece into the empty space behind it.
• Chain multiple jumps in one turn to cover huge distances.
• Nothing is captured, it's a pure race to relocate your camp.
• First player to fill the far camp with all ten pieces wins.

• Desktop: click one of your pieces to select it; legal destinations appear as dots, click a dot to move or land a jump chain.
• Phone & tablet: tap a piece, then tap a highlighted dot, fully touch-driven, no keyboard needed.

• Vs Computer, choose Easy, Medium, or Hard; stronger levels build longer jump ladders.
• 2-Player, pass-and-play on one device.
• Online, create an invite, join with a code, or quick-match a live opponent.

• Build 'ladders', line up pieces as stepping stones so a trailing piece can chain several jumps at once.
• Move your back pieces early; the ones deepest in your camp have the farthest to travel.
• Don't leave a piece behind, a single straggler can cost you the game even when the rest have arrived.
• Watch your opponent's ladders; sometimes the best move blocks a square they need to land on.

Halma is a classic 19th-century board game of jumping and movement, the ancestor of many corner-to-corner race games. This is an original, free browser version with computer, two-player, and online play, ready instantly with no download or sign-up.

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