Race across the star board to claim the opposite point. Race ten pieces from one arm of a six-pointed star to the opposite arm. Move one step or jump over adjacent pieces (yours or opponents') to reach empty spaces beyond. Chain multiple jumps in one move. First player to fill the opposite arm wins.
Every rule of Stern-Halma below is frontmatter in the rules corpus, played by the hop plugin. The board beside each is the game itself, live.
Step or chain-hop in six directions. No capture. Jumped pieces remain.
engine:
topology:
type: graph
structure: star
params:
armSize: 4
spacing: 24
players: [red, black]
plugin: hop
plugins:
stern-halma:
goals:
- [h112, h113, h114, h115, h116, h117, h118, h119, h120, h121]
- [h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, h7, h8, h9, h10]
campLock: trueStandard 2-Player Stern-Halma
Alternating arms used. Each player's goal is the arm directly opposite their start.
engine:
topology:
type: graph
structure: star
params:
armSize: 4
spacing: 24
players: [red, green, purple]
plugin: hop
plugins:
stern-halma:
goals:
- [h112, h113, h114, h115, h116, h117, h118, h119, h120, h121]
- [h11, h12, h13, h14, h24, h25, h26, h36, h37, h47]
- [h20, h21, h22, h23, h33, h34, h35, h45, h46, h56]
campLock: trueStandard 3-Player Stern-Halma
Every Stern-Halma variant is playable against the AI or another player.