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Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning jump) is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854.The gameboard is checkered and divided into 16×16 squares. Pieces may be small checkers or counters or wooden or plastic cones or men resembling small chess pawns.

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