Chinese Checkers, also called Sternhalma, is a German strategy board game that can be played by 2-6 players. It is a simplified version of a game called Halma (a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks). My parents had the version pictured here, a round metal container that stored the marbles and checker pieces. Flip it over and it was a checkerboard.