


You can also aim to get certain patterns of pieces left over. Once you have mastered the basic game, target a different hole as the hole that the final piece should finish in. Therefore, the first turn can be made only by jumping a piece into the middle hole from one of 4 possible points. The player makes successive capturing moves, removing a single piece each turn until is it impossible to make any more capturing moves.Įach turn, the player captures a piece by jumping over that piece orthogonally (not diagonally) from one adjacent point to the vacant adjacent point on the other side. Solitaire is played by one person and is therefore technically not a game at all, but a puzzle.

The objective is to remove every piece except one, with the final piece ending up in the centre hole. The best solution has this peg in the center. To win you have to end up with only one peg. If theres more then one valid move available, youll have to choose a destination. Just click on a peg and if theres a valid - horizontal or vertical - move available, the peg will 'jump'. The game is set up so that pieces fill every hole except the middle hole. This removes the peg you jumped over from the board. It takes deep concentration to find the solution of the Brainvita board game. Solitaire can also be played on other shapes of board - two of the most interesting are a 41 point board (take the 33 point board and add 3 extra points at the 4 ends of the cross) and the 45 point board (take the 37 point board and add a single point in the middle of each of the 4 square ends - to makes a square). Rank History shows how popular Marble Solitaire : Peg Game is in the iOS. In France and Sweden a 37 point board is more common with 36 pegs, marbles or pieces. The game of Solitaire is most commonly played on a 33 point board (as pictured above left) in a cross shape with 32 pegs, marbles or pieces.
