About Peg Solitaire
Peg Solitaire has been played on wooden boards for more than three hundred years. The board is a cross of thirty-three holes with a peg in every one except the centre. Each jump removes a peg, so a complete solution takes exactly thirty-one jumps.
How it works
Select a peg and the holes it can jump to are outlined in yellow. If nothing lights up, that peg has no move at the moment. The Undo button takes back one jump at a time, as far as you like, so you can back out of a dead end without starting over.
When no jumps remain, the game tells you how many pegs are left. Most first attempts end with five or six. Getting down to three is respectable, and one is a real achievement.
Solving tips
The pegs that cause trouble are the ones left alone at the edges. A peg can only be removed by a neighbour jumping over it, so a peg with no neighbours is stuck for good. Keep your pegs together.
Clear the arms of the cross early. Work on one arm at a time, bringing its pegs towards the middle, and leave the centre region well stocked for the endgame.
Think in blocks. Experienced players learn small patterns, such as a row of three pegs beside an empty hole, that can be removed in a known sequence leaving everything else untouched.
Use Undo as a learning tool. When you get stuck, step back five or six moves and look for the jump that isolated a peg.
It is harder than most HTML5 games on this site, and solving it for the first time is something you will remember.