{"id":31706,"count":1,"description":"Halma (from the Greek word \u1f05\u03bb\u03bc\u03b1 meaning \"jump\") is a board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks. The inspiration was an English game called Hoppity, which was devised in 1854.\nPlaying equipment consists of a checkered board, divided into 16 \u00d7 16 squares. Pieces are typically black and white for two-player games, and of various colours or other distinction in games of four players.\nThe game is played by two or four players on opposing corners of the board. The goal of the game is to transfer all of one's pieces from one's own camp into the camp in the opposing corner. Each turn, a player either moves a single piece to an adjacent open square, or jumps over one or more pieces in sequence.\nThe objective is to cause all one's own pieces to occupy the opposing camp: the diagonally opposite camp to one's own.\nThere are also 8\u00d78 and 10\u00d710 board variations, either of which is adequate for two players and they have 10 and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/halma\/","name":"Halma","slug":"halma","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/31706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=31706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}