Turkish Checkers
BGG rank
BGG #19,474
BGG rating
6.7

Turkish Checkers

1400

Rules assistance for Turkish Checkers

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 6+
  • Complexity 2.3/5

Rules assistant for Turkish Checkers

For 2 players

What would you like to know?

Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Turkish Checkers is a board game released in 1400 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 6 and up. Its main mechanics are Square Grid, Grid Movement, and Pattern Movement.

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About the game

It is a common form of checkers widely played in the Middle-East, where it is known as Dama. Played on an 8×8 board, it differentiates with most other games of the Checkers Family because pieces move straight forward or sideways, not diagonally. When a piece reaches the last row it promotes to a flying king (Dama) which moves like the rook in Chess.

Questions and answers

Turkish Checkers supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.