Solitaire

1697 · BGG

Avg rating

4.48

Bayes rating

5.11

Weight

1.53 (Light)

Players

Playtime

15 min

Ratings count

1,223

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Description

A family of games designed for a single player. These puzzle-games challenge the player to clear a grid of tokens or pegs. Typically all but one space on the board is filled. The game is played by jumping a peg over one other into an empty space. The peg jumped over is removed from the board. This continues until no more jumps can be made. The object is to leave only a single peg or token left on the board.

The two most common boards are the 33-peg English cross and the 37-peg French octagon boards.

Ostensibly, this is Outside the Scope of BGG, but is kept in the database by fiat due to history.



Mechanics

Point to Point Movement

Themes

None recorded

Publishers

(Public Domain) (Self-Published) (Unknown) AB Sandbergs Sportspel ABRA Alga Are-Jay Game Company Bell Berwick's Toy Co. Ltd. Boy's Own Paper Built-Rite CHH Games Carlit Cayro, The Games Chad Valley Co Ltd. Co Ma Codeg Dal Negro De Agostini Dilemma Games Dourios Dujardin Empire Plastics Corporation Escho Falcon Games (I) Gabriel Gerhards Spiel und Design Gerla Plastik H. P. Gibson & Sons HABA HS Hausser Hawkin's Bazaar Horizon Group USA House of Marbles Ilex Inovac Rima SA John Jaques of London Jumbo King International Kohner Bros. Longfield Games Lubbers & Bell Mfg Co Merit Montana Nelospelit Nelostuote Oy Neroulia New Entertainment Ltd Oriental Trading Company Original Pussy Parris Manufacturing Company Paul Lamond Games Ltd Pentangle Peri Spiele Peter Pan Playthings Piatnik Pier 1 Imports Pin International Planet Finska Pressman Toy Corp. R Turner Reiss Games Ruibal Hermanos S.A. Russimco Games S.A. Derwik Salco Schmidt Spiele Selchow & Righter Sherms, Inc. Skjøde Skjern Sladecolour Board Games Smethport Specialty Co. Spear's Games Sterling Innovation Super Accord Tactic The Purple Cow ThinkFun Toltoys Tryne U3 Unicorn Products VERO Verlag Junge Welt Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc. Wood Expressions Woodstock Spiele relo

Designers

(Uncredited)