#halma

[virtual-board-game-room]

Halma

A classic strategy game that is neglected next to chess and Go. Yet the tactical and strategic possibilities in Halma are in no way inferior to other brain games.

Build so-called bridges to move your pieces from your starting area completely into the target zone. You can jump over both your own and your opponent's pieces in one move as often as you have the opportunity to do so.

Interfere with your opponent by blocking their paths and squares or by moving one of your pieces at the right moment by exactly the right position.

Get the game for VBR here.

Find the real life game here.

See it on YouTube. 

Virtual Board Game Room on Patreon

[topcat77]

Harold Halma

[zegalba]

photography by Harold Halma, 1960s

[lisamarie-vee]

[nonsmetteredicercarmi]

Che bello cercare appartamenti però

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

i wanna teach gregg how to play mexican train, but first i have to google it and make sure that's what it is actually called, and not a racist american name for it. this is chinese checkers all over again.

[tomigyuu]

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[2gbsdcard]

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[paoulineworld]

Harold Halma

[yellowbrickramble]

Munchkin is an anachronistic joke, but all of the other board games in Nick Chopper's cabinet are period accurate.

Go, Marbles, Snakes & Ladders , and the deck of playing cards are ancient games, of course.

Gillikinese Checkers is naturally what Ozites call Stern-Halma, Travellers' Tour Through the Oz represents the 19th century board game Travellers' Tour Through the United States, and The Landlord's Game is the original version of Monopoly, coming out in 1904.

One if the obscured games might be chess. The other one could be anything.

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[r2y9s-notartblog]

thanks for tagging me @uygfiug !

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last movie/tv show: Raffles tv show with Anthony Valentine and Christopher Strauli :)

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relationship status: single

last thing I googled: Sternhalma (the name given to "chinese checkers" by the germans who actually invented it)

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Last movie/TV show: Seinfeld, I’m currently on season four!

Sweet/spicy/savory?: I have a huge sweet tooth, so sweet things

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Last thing I googled: I searched up the show “Arthur” because I was trying to find that one meme where Buster was like “You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and spread lies?”

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[philibetexcerpts]

Is there any more story about Philip's children with Princess Alice? I'm curious about the stories of their grandmother's and grandchildren's interactions.

• “When at Buckingham Palace, Alice doted on Philip’s children, Charles and Anne. They both profess considerable affection for her. To Charles Alice used to say: ‘Punctuality is the prerogative of Princes.’ The Prince of Wales recalled: ‘She used to come and lunch with us in the nursery, I remember. We were terrified if we were late. She was very strict.’ She did not discuss religion with either of them, nor ever mention her favourite Schuré book, Les Grands Initiés. ‘I remember her lecturing me about the power of the brain,’ recalled the Prince of Wales.

The Princess Royal did not regret the fact that Alice was not ‘a cuddly granny’. She was a little alarmed by her in early years, because no one, not least Alice herself, had explained the deafness. Therefore she would come and see her grandmother in her rooms on the second floor of the palace (rooms which she later occupied), finding her in a cloud of smoke – ‘I’ve known a few worse, I suppose, but not many’ – and have to gain her attention. Later, when she learned how to talk to her, they established a good rapport. To both grandchildren Alice told fascinating stories about Queen Victoria and the past.”

• “Alice was in London, staying with the Queen, while Philip was away on a two-month tour of South America. Charles welcomed a visit from his Greek grandmother, especially as she often brought stamps from Greece. He once wrote to her with a request for a postcard. He asked that she ‘pretty well fill up the card with stamps and not worry so much about the writing part’. These were good for swapping at his prep school, Cheam.

Charles was recovering from an operation to remove his appendix, so Alice paid him frequent visits in hospital, sometimes taking Anne and Andrew with her.”

• “For a time she travelled about much as before, spending weekends at Windsor Castle. It was the time when the royal family all got to know her best, including the Queen, who was particularly good to her. Charles and Anne were often at the palace or at Windsor and invariably looked in to see her. The small princes were taken to her rooms to play. When they were very small, she had alarmed the children with her deep voice. The Prince of Wales told his valet that as he grew older, he came to appreciate ‘her sense of fun and lively mind’. Alice was pleased that Charles played the cello, since Andrea had done so in his youth.”

• “In London Andrew and Edward played in Alice’s room after breakfast and lunched with her every day. ‘So nice for me, who am so lonely in Athens,’ she wrote. Young Edward used to run in and jump on his grandmother’s bed. Halma was a favourite game.”

• “It happened that Anne had not paid her usual visit to Alice on the day she died. She therefore asked the undertakers if she could go into her grandmother’s room and see her. ‘I am glad I did that. She looked very peaceful. All the lines in her face had gone and for the first time I could see the resemblance to the de László portrait.’”

This one though. Princess Anne’s last words for her Yaya was beautiful yet heartbreaking.

Everything is from Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers btw. It’s a good read :)

[eric-the-bmo]

I realized there was a planet I didn't explore yet, so I went down there with the hopes of maybe finding another Floran dungeon. Instead, Yam eventually found a Hyotl village! He and his crew ended up doing a lot of quests there, including taking down a bounty hunter who turned out to be a masked Floran named Halma. She ended up joining the team.

Yam decided to show Katashi the Hyotl town, since he had found her all by herself. Quite a few townsfolk want to join the team, but I'm hesitant for now.

With all the money Yam had (4021 pixels), I knew I was going to eventually lose those through death, so we went to Terramart and bought some animal eggs. I've no place to raise them yet, so they're staying in storage for now.

[theworldofmakebelieve]

halma n

[nonsmetteredicercarmi]

Posso iniziare a crederci o mi conviene aspettare di essere definitivamente lì? 🥹🥹🥹

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

it's wild that we brought the game sternhalma over from germany and started calling it "chinese checkers". american innovation at its finest.