Diamond Checker’s = A Girl’s Best Friend on iPod Touch Games

Posted by on March 25th, 2009 at 03:52pm

Do you remember that game where there are countless amounts of marbles, and if you shake the board, they roll all over the place? The game is Chinese Checkers. Well, now there is a game available known as Diamond Checkers. This is basically the Chinese checkers of iPod touch games.

For those of you who have never played Chinese checkers, the goal of Diamond Checkers is simple. You want to get all of your marbles in the point of the star which is directly opposite your own point. But unlike regular checkers, you don’t remove your opponent’s pieces when you jump them. You want to set up things like a ladder to help your pieces get across. You can only move as long as you have pieces to jump, whether they are your pieces or your opponents’ pieces.

Because up to six people can play one game of Diamond Checkers, you are going to want to choose your strategy carefully. Strategy comes into play with the more people that you have playing against you.

When you play Diamond Checkers, you have the options to play only against the computer, play against other human opponents, or you can play both against the computer and other humans. If you are playing alone, start out playing just one other computer opponent. Then you want to try playing against five others. That will give you an idea of what a difference it makes.

You don’t get a lot of challenge when you are playing against the computer, so if you are looking for a real challenge, play with other humans. The graphics are basic and nothing special to look at, and they don’t have different boards to use, which would be nice.

Overall, the convenience of being able to play without having to deal with a lot of marbles makes this a good game for Chinese checkers enthusiasts to look at. For the rest of us, maybe wait and see if they do some improvements to it.

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