Snake Checker--a board game A few words for the game: Snake Checker is a board game I played with friends in my childhood. It is simple but very interesting and attractive game. We drew a board on a piece of paper and played with match sticks. The rule is that the players should place a sticks on board one after the other. The one, who cannot place stick on board anymore, lose the game. If there is a stick in a cell with head-tail parallel to the column (row), no other stick can be placed in this column (row) with its head-tail parallel to the column (row). The exception is that there is a perpendicalar stick bewteen them. This game was programmed in JAVA as an exercise of learning recursive/stack programming method. X.Z. LI, March 2001.