Draughts

Also called checkers. This game is played between two persons upon a board containing sixty-four squares of alternate colors with twelve round disks of wood or bone, called men, each. These men are moved by the players alternately in diagonal directions and a piece or man may be jumped and thus taken from the board. The game thus continues until one or the other has lost all his men or is unable to move them. It is said to have come from the East in 16th century.