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Peg Solitaire
Jump peg over peg until one is left in the ringed hole.
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How to play
- Tap a peg to pick it up; its jumps show as dashed rings.
- Tap the hole two along to jump, taking the peg in between off.
- Or drag a peg over its neighbour into the hole behind.
- Clear the board until one peg is left in the ringed hole.
- Undo as often as you like, or Refill to start the board again.
Controls
Keyboard
- ← ↑ → ↓ move between holes
- Space or Enter picks a peg up, then an arrow jumps it that way
- Z or Backspace undo, R refill the board
- H hint, P pause
Touch
- Tap a peg, then the hole two along
- Or drag the peg over its neighbour
- UNDO, REFILL and HINT sit under the board
Controller
- D-pad or left stick to move
- A / Cross for action, B / Circle for secondary
- Start to pause
Tips for a better score
- Work from the edges inwards. Pegs stranded on an outside row are the ones that get left behind.
- Keep a tight block of pegs together: a jump needs two pegs in a row and a hole behind them, so a scattered board dies quickly.
- One peg that jumps several times in a row is a chain, and every jump in it pays five more than the last.
- Scoring: ten points a jump, more for chains, then 200 for a solve plus two points for every second under par. Each hint costs forty.
About Peg Solitaire
Peg Solitaire is the old wooden jumping-peg board. A peg hops over the one next to it into the empty hole behind, and the peg it jumped comes off the board; keep going until a single peg is left, and it has to finish in the ringed hole. Seven boards climb from a twelve-hole brick to the thirty-three-hole English board and the thirty-seven-hole French one, and the board you reach is saved, so you can come back to it. Every board ships with a full solution worked out by an exhaustive search, so each one is provably winnable, and the hint searches from wherever your board actually is — it will tell you the jump that keeps you winning, or that the position is already lost and how far to undo.
A free peg jumping puzzle that runs in your browser. Category: Puzzle games. Made for RetroWorld with original art and sound.
