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The Box Checkers Game
Material Required to Make the Game of Box Checkers: A square hat-box or its cover, sixteen large wooden button-molds. Tools Needed to Make the Game of Box Checkers: Ruler, crayons.
Almost every one likes to play checkers, but it isn't every one who owns a checker-board or who has one at home when he wants it. You may make a checkerboard of your own, if you wish it any time. You will need a large square box cover such as come fitted to hat-boxes. If it has print upon it, paste sorne clean brown paper over all the top and trim it off neatly around the sides.
The lower half of a hat-box may be used in place of the cover, if you prefer. You know what a checker-board is like, don't you? It is all divided into small squares colored usually black and white, alternating in color. An easy way to measure spaces for your checkerboard that is to be made with a box, is to take a thin piece of brown paper and cut it in a quarter-inch strip the exact length of one side of your box. Fold this piece of paper into half; fold the half to make quarters; fold the quarters to make eighths and there you have your measurements! Unfold the strip of paper, and, placing it along each side of your box in turn, make a mark where a folding comes in the paper. First, join these from side to side vertically parallel. Next, cross these lines with others running from the two other sides to join similar points horizontal and parallel. This gives the squares needed for the game-board. Color these as you see indicated here in the diagram by small crosses. Each square that has upon it a cross is to be colored black. In coloring, keep your lines as uniform as you can and run all in one general direction. This tends to make your work appear neat. The button-molds are used in playing the game. Eight may be colored red and eight yellow. Both top and bottom of the button-molds must be colored. How to play Box Checkers Two players may play. Play is made in turn by moving from one square to the next or by jumping over as many men as space allows. Only one man may be jumped over at one time, but you may jump as many others, singly, as you can. If you see a move to jump your opponent's man, you must take it. Always jump as many of your opponent's men as you can. Men once jumped over are taken off the board. A player tries to have his men reach the opposite side of the game-board. When a "man" reaches there, he is "crowned." In Box Checkers, when a man is "crowned," that button is turned over. The one to win is the one who can take the largest number of men. Ordinary "men" can move forward only, and forward to right or left. A "man" crowned, king, may move any way he pleases.
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