#Halma spielen how to#

Their translation of the next sentence was The Players now try so quickly as possible with their Stones to beset the House of the Against-man and he is the self-same Winner who the first gelingt. This seemed to be pretty straightforward: At this Game 2 or 4 Persons can betake themselves and each of them wears a Colour and damn it, when 2 Persons play, a big house with 19 stones, when 4 Persons play, he besets a little House with 13 stones.

The first paragraph of the rules was: An diesem Spiel können sich 2 bis 4 Personen beteiligen, von denen jede eine farbe wählt, und damit, wenn 2 Personen spielen, einen großen Hof mit 19 steinen, wenn 4 personen spielen kleinen Hof mit 13 steinen besezt.

#Halma spielen how to#

The late columnist Paul Jennings (inventor of the brilliant cod philosophy Resistentialism) once bought a second-hand set which had the rules in German, and with the help of a friend who didn’t know any more German than he did decided to work out how to play and then try to have a game. No-one seems to play the board game Halma any more, and if you look at the rules of the game and its variations you can see why. Here is a classic account of a noble struggle with German: I have noted elsewhere some examples of translations from French, Spanish and Italian.