• Board
• Objective
• Play
• End of Game

The original Halma is played on a 16x16 checkerboard but other sizes can be used too. igGameCenter uses a 10x10 checkerboard.

Each player has 15 checkers (dark and light) located in opposite corners of the board. The areas where the checkers are placed are called "houses".

Players move alternately one checker per turn, starting with the player with the light checkers.

There are two variants of moving a checker:

1. A checker can move to any adjacent unoccupied cell horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The turn is passed to the opponent right after this kind of move.
2. A checker can jump over another checker (either the player's or the opponent's) standing on an adjacent cell if there is an empty cell in the same direction right after it.  If the same checker can continue jumping over another checker it can do so (but doesn't have to).

When a player makes a move that results in all his checkers being located in the opponent's house the player wins.