Solitaire and Triangle Peg Jump Puzzles | Coffee Table Games

We’ve combined two of our favorite peg jumping games - Solitaire and Peg Jump 6 - in one set!

Peg Jump 6 - 6 Holes wide and high, this is a more advanced version of the common 5 wide triangle jump puzzle familiar to Cracker Barrel fans. Your goal is to eliminate all pegs except one. Start with 1 hole empty and then jump over any adjacent peg on a row, column, or diagonal. Remove the peg that was jumped over. Continue this process until you can no longer make any legal jumps. Ideally you will end up with 1 peg!

You can solve this puzzle by leaving any initial hole vacant and it is possible to end up with the last hole in the same position as the initial starting hole.

The worst you can possibly do is to have 12 pegs left; but this in itself can be a goal. It is at least as difficult to find this "solution" as it is to find the single peg solution.

Solitaire is a VERY old game, dating back to around the 16th century. It is the Great Grandfather of the Last Fighter puzzle above, but it (Solitaire) is more complex. There are hundreds of different puzzles to solve with this game. We provide a number of them along with solutions and websites dedicated to the game. The basic puzzle is to remove the peg in the center position, start jumping and try to end up with 1 peg in the center.

Milton Bradley made a plastic version of this in the 60's called "Hi-Q".

Materials: Wood