At the start of a game of checkers, each player starts with how many pieces?
Beer checkers Beer checkers Beer checkers (also known as shotglass checkers, shot glass checkers or beercheckers) is a two player drinking game. A variant of normal checkers, it is played on a standard checkerboard (or chess board), using cups of beer in place of the regular checker pieces (or draughts). The game is popular with students at universities in the United States. The board is set up as for a normal game of checkers, with 12 cups to a side, each cup half-full of beer. Either the cups should be visually distinct to distinguish the players' pieces, or a light and a
Chinese checkers and Jack Pressman in 1928. The Pressman company's game was originally called "Hop Ching Checkers". The game was introduced to Chinese-speaking regions mostly by the Japanese. The aim is to race all one's pieces into the star corner on the opposite side of the board before opponents do the same. The destination corner is called "home". Each player has 10 pieces, except in games between two players when 15 are used. (On bigger star boards, 15 or 21 pieces are used.) In "hop across", the most popular variation, each player starts with their colored pieces on one of the six