[Sca-cooks] time Period for Chinese Checkers....?

[Susan Fox]

If I remember correctly, it's actually late 19th Century and German, in 
a time of a fad for Anything Oriental.

Googling... yup, I'm approximately right. 
 <http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Halma.htm>

Selene

wildecelery at aol.com wrote:

> Does anyone out there have an even vague idea of the time period/place 
> of origin of the game we now call chinese checkers.   ( I know...the 
> name would imply China, but havin minimal  knowledge  of  period 
> gaming,  or even games in general, I didn't want to make any 
> assumptions.)
>
> -Ardenia