Checkers in the Park

WHAT IS CHECKERS IN THE PARK?

Checkers in the Park is an Activity that we've developed here at Discord for playing checkers with your friends!

HOW TO PLAY CHECKERS IN THE PARK

These instructions may be slightly different on mobile devices.

1. After opening up Checkers in the Park, you can select Create Game to create your own game or Join Game to join an existing one. If there are existing checkers games in your server, you can view or join them by selecting them.

2. If you’re creating your own game, you’ll see the following options:

• Game name: Tap on Generate Game Name to generate a new name.

• Unlocked: If your game is unlocked, anyone can join.

• Free Jump: Choose between Free Jump or Forced Jump. With Free Jump, players can choose not to jump a piece when you have a jump available. With Forced Jump, players must make any valid jumps, which add an element of strategy to your checkers match.

• Time Limit: This is how long each player has for their turn. You can select 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, or a custom limit up to 99 minutes.

• Color: Pick what color piece you’d like. Red, black, or you can select the question mark for it to be randomly selected for you.

• Theme: Choose the checkerboard and background theme you want.

• Piece Set: Select a game piece style you’d like to use.

3. After you’ve decided on everything above, tap on Create Game to create your game!

4. Each player gets a turn to move one of their checkers on the board. Your standard checkers game piece can only move diagonally and toward the opponent, and only move one spot at a time.

5. If you get one of your checkers game pieces to the other side of the board, then your piece can move forwards or backwards diagonally. Depending on the checkers game piece design you picked, this piece will look a little different than the rest (for example: if you use the snow set, your piece will turn into a snowman’s face).

• The first person to remove all of their opponent’s game pieces wins the game.

6. Need a refresher of how to play the game while in a match? Tap on the cogwheel in the top right corner and then tap on How to for instructions.