History Of Kingsters
As my memory serves me; I was eight or nine years old and my family were living on a one hundred and fifty acre farm in upstate New York and our closest neighbor was three quarters of a mile away. The cartoons only came on at a specific time of the day so my sister and I used to play a lot of board games, especially during the long winters. After a while we started to make up new rules for some of the games. One game in particular was checkers which we played a lot but it would get boring since it’s pretty slow. We came up with playing just with the kings from the start. I can remember one game where I was losing to my sister, in order to change the prevailing tide I jumped my own chip to get to hers for a triple jump. Of course she did not like this because it was against the rules; after that game we updated the rules to being able to jump your own chip and move in any direction. From there, Kingsters was born.