Editing Halma (section)

== Notable appearances in popular culture ==
{{in popular culture|section|date=May 2024}}
[[File:Halma advert.jpg|thumb|1890 magazine advertisement]]

* In [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', Halma is mentioned in Chapter 17.
* Talking Halma pieces are featured in the ''[[Rupert the Bear]]'' story "Rupert and the Jumping Men," Rupert Annual 1976.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.card-tower.eu/rupert-bear-and-jumping-men-where-have-all-games-gone |title="Rupert Bear and the Jumping Men. Where have all the games gone?" |access-date=2015-04-28 |archive-date=2016-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406111540/http://www.card-tower.eu/rupert-bear-and-jumping-men-where-have-all-games-gone |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In [[E. Nesbit]]'s ''[[The Magic City (novel)|The Magic City]]'', the land of Somnolentia is inhabited by Halma people.
* In [[Mona Caird]]'s ''[[The Daughters of Danaus (novel)|The Daughters of Danaus]]'', the main protagonist Hadria Fullerton sarcastically wishes to learn [[Bezique]] or Halma in order to be a more acquiescent woman.
* [[Mervyn Peake]] twice compares distant people to halma pieces, in his novels ''[[Mr Pye]]'' and ''[[Titus Groan (novel)|Titus Groan]]''.
* [[Paul Jennings (UK author)|Paul Jennings]] described the hilarious results of his attempt to decipher the rules of the game from a set of instructions in German in his article "How to Spiel Halma".
* Rickie plays Halma against himself as a lonely child in the novel [[The Longest Journey (novel)]] by [[E.M.Forster]].
* [[Eleanor Farjeon]] talks about playing Halma in her autobiography ''A Nursery in the Nineties'', and about using black, white, and red Halma pieces to enact a Christmas Eve ritual game in which imaginary characters try to climb a mountain made of [[Anchor Stone Blocks]].
* In ''The Chalet School and Jo'' from the [[Chalet School]] series by [[Elinor Brent-Dyer]], Halma is played by two of the characters.
* In Episode 9 of the original radio series, [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'']] by [[Douglas Adams]], Eddie, the overly cheerful computer of starship, ''Heart of Gold'', tries to calm the crew facing imminent, certain death at the hands of an approaching Vogon fleet, by suggesting that they play electronic Halma.<ref>[https://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio9.htm "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"]</ref>
* Halma is mentioned in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Unseen Academicals]]
*George Sherston, the narrator of [[Siegfried Sassoon]]'s ''[[Memoirs of an Infantry Officer]]'', becomes frustrated when his Aunt suggests a game of Halma at a point when he is consumed by anti-war feeling.<ref>“Memoirs of an Infantry Officer”, Part 10, IV.</ref>
*Halma is mentioned in [[Compton Mackenzie]]'s ''Rich Relatives.''
*Halma is mentioned in [[O. Douglas]]'s ''Eliza For Common.''
* In [[Joan Lindsay]]'s ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'', Halma is one of the games (along with [[Snakes and Ladders]]) played by two of the characters during a summer courtship.
* In [[Lawrence Durrell]]'s 'The Black Book'.
* In [[E.M. Forster]]'s ''[[Maurice (novel)|Maurice]]''.
* In [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'', Lady Julia Flyte refers to playing Halma with the family's nanny (p.&nbsp;76).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Brideshead Revisted|via=Archive.org|publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin Australia]]|date=1962 |url=https://ia801602.us.archive.org/33/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.201980/2015.201980.Brideshead-Revisited.pdf|quote=338 page PDF}}</ref>
* In Evelyn Waugh's ''[[Black Mischief]]'', Sir Samson Courteney, The British Envoy, cries out when the Legation is being besieged "It's no good. My heart is ''not'' in halma this evening." .<ref>“Black Mischief”, Chapter VII.</ref>
* Halma is mentioned in [[Susan Hill]]'s The Lady in Black (Chapter-In the Nursery)