Halma | Victorian board game | Rules | History | Strategy

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Halma was one of the most popular parlor games in the Victorian era. It's also the only such game that was invented in America. Check out the rules, history, and strategy of this game! Build video part 1: https://youtu.be/iRHnQKidAzE Build video part 2: https://youtu.be/y14HpqHYTUQ www.thegamingbench.com Want to support the channel? Drop me a couple bucks at https://buymeacoffee.com/thegamingbench. Thanks! PHOTO CREDITS Halma board CC BY-SA 4.0 Tv2022 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tv2022&action=edit&redlink=1 Atlantic ocean map CC BY-SA 4.0 Robert Sayer Stern-Halma CC BY-SA 3.0 DE Roger Rössing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622940 MUSIC CREDITS Master of the Feast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400019 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ REFERENCES Publications * Bell, R.C. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Dover Publications, 1979 *. Bell, R.C. Discovering Old Board Games, Shire Publications Ltd., 1973 *. Bell, R.C. The Boardgame Book, The Knapp Press, 1979 *. Grunfeld, Frederic. Games of the World, Ballatine Books, 1977 *. Howe, Walter Henry. Everybody’s Book of Indoor Games, W.R. Russel & Co, LTD, 1899 *. Murray, H.J.R. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952 *. Parlett, David. Parlett’s History of Board Games. Echo Point Books & Media, 2018 * Pritchard, David. The Family Book of Games. Brockhampton Press, 1995 WEBSITES https://thebiggamehunter.com/games-one-by-one/halma/ https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/9889/blogpost/103104/is-hoppity-an-urban-myth http://chinesecheckers.vegard2.net/history.html https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2556595/number-of-games-published-by-year https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2898823/the-shelf-life-of-modern-board-games https://passivesecrets.com/board-game-statistics/ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14519/hoppity/credits https://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Halma.htm http://www.cyningstan.com/game/70/halma https://www.mastersofgames.com/rules/halma-rules.htm?srsltid=AfmBOop0noKmrSuUjaJZp8RY_5lLf06562kaFSYrpqt7oFkJk_DyewMG Timecodes 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Board & pieces 01:02 - Rules 02:56 - History 07:12 - Did Hoppity exist? 11:26 - Strategy 12:51 - Wrap-up #boardgames #ancientgames, #victorian, #victoriangames, #halma, #woodworking, #gaming STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I am not a professional game scholar. At best, I am an enthusiastic amateur. This means my work may be incomplete, biased and, (I hope only rarely) outright wrong. I work hard to use reliable sources, double-check for accuracy, and draw reasonable conclusions. However, the scholarship surrounding ancient games is constantly growing and evolving; as a part-time game researcher and YouTube content creator, I am not always up to date on the most recent findings. If I present anything that is demonstrably incorrect, please call me out so I may increase my personal knowledge and understanding of this fascinating subject. Reach me at heygamingbench@gmail.com.