# Checkerboard with checker games on the back

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 31, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checkerboard-with-checker-games-on-the-back/685026 "2014-03-31T22:12:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checkerboard-with-checker-games-on-the-back/685026/1 "2014-03-31T22:12:43Z")

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(I asked this back in 2008, but no one had a good answer.)

I had a checkers game, and on the back of the board in an insert), there was a diagram of other checkers games that could be played. Anyone with this kind of board/game (or maybe they all have them)? The only other “alternate” game I remember was a weird arrangement in the middle of the board, which was probably “Fox and Geese.”

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**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checkerboard-with-checker-games-on-the-back/685026/2 "2014-03-31T23:45:35Z")

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I believe one of the games simply stated you could arrange the pieces on the corners, something closer to Chinese checkers.

Another one, I believe was a solitaire, you were instructed to make a border with the checkers, two rows thick, two outer most row/column squares. The objective was to jump all the pieces off.