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Definitions for Halma
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Princeton's WordNet
halmanoun
a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases
Wiktionary
halmanoun
A board game invented by in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
Etymology: From ἅλμα.
Wikipedia
Halma
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. Piece colors are typically black and white for two-player games, and various colors or other distinction in games for four players.
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halma
Halma is a strategic board game invented in the late 1800s. The objective of the game is to move all of one's pieces across the hexagon-shaped board into the opposing player's corner before the opponent does the same. The game can be played by two to four players. The game allows each player to move their piece one space in any direction or to jump over other pieces, their own or their opponent's.
Webster Dictionary
Halmanoun
the long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon
Etymology: [NL., fr. Gr. "a`lma, fr. "a`llesqai to leap.]
Wikidata
Halma
Halma is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks. The inspiration was an English game called Hoppity, which was devised in 1854. Playing equipment consists of a checkered board divided into 16×16 squares. Pieces may be small checkers or counters, or wooden or plastic cones or men resembling small chess pawns. Piece colors are typically black and white for two-player games, and of various colours or other distinction in games of four players.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Halma
hal′ma, n. a game played on a checkered board of 256 squares, by two or four persons, with thirteen to nineteen men each—also Hoppity: in the Greek pentathlon the long jump with weights in the hands. [Gr.,—hallesthai, to leap.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HALMA
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Halma is ranked #102688 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Halma surname appeared 175 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Halma.
95.4% or 167 total occurrences were White.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Halma in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Halma in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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