How to Win the Peg Solitaire Game (English Board)

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: The board has the form of a plus sign +;

   You can jump only horizontally or vertically.
   
   The peg that has been jumped over gets removed., The goal is to have only one peg remaining, preferably in the middle of the board, its center.
   
   This is the inversion of the start board (you see the start board in the board above). ,, Then an big arrow remains, pointing left.
   
   This arrow covers the whole center area. ,, The full board is shown here. , This way is always the same.
   
   We are clearing the right side.
   
   We take the peg from the top down: , It is the first move of starting the right side area. ,,, So we move towards it from the left: , Saved the poor peg: , Now we consider the right side area as cleared.
   
   There are (almost) no pegs left in that area. , To make this easier, you want to turn the whole board 90° to the right (clockwise). , So you can compare the steps above and below now. , Remember, this our first step in the process. ,,,, Wow! Let's consider this area cleared. ,, From top down (1st step) : ,,,, Consider the area cleared.
   
   Let's rotate again 90° to the right. ,,,,,,,,,,,, Please note that the remaining peg is the peg that made the very first move in the game. ,,
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   Step 2: The goal is to jump a peg over another peg onto a hole.

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   Step 3: Thus we remove the pegs of the board move by move.

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   Step 4: Please note that there are four side areas in the field (size 3x2) and one center area (size 3x3).

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   Step 5: We start with the sides and clear one side of its pegs

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   Step 6: then turn to each succeeding side until we have cleared the four sides.

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   Step 7: The trick is

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   Step 8: we can clear each of the four sides the same way

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   Step 9: so we only have to memorize the steps once.

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    Step 10: First move is going from right to the left into the middle hole.

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    Step 11: Now we are going to clear a side area.

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    Step 12: This is an important move.

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    Step 13: Now we go from the corner towards the middle:

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    Step 14: And we move from the bottom right corner to the upper right corner:

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    Step 15: Now we want to go and rescue the lonely peg in the corner.

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    Step 16: And back again.

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    Step 17: that was fun.

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    Step 18: As said we repeat the steps now for the next side area.

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    Step 19: Now you see

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    Step 20: we need to clear the right area again and we do it in the same steps.

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    Step 21: So we take it down from the top.

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    Step 22: Going out of the corner to the left.

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    Step 23: Move in the corner again from below.

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    Step 24: Rescue the lonesome peg in the corner.

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    Step 25: And take it back towards the center again.

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    Step 26: Let's turn it again 90° to the right!

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    Step 27: Same procedure again.

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    Step 28: From the corner to the inside.

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    Step 29: From the bottom upward to the corner.

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    Step 30: Go and get the corner peg.

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    Step 31: And back in the middle.

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    Step 32: one side left to clear.

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    Step 33: Down from the top (1st).

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    Step 34: To the center.

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    Step 35: From bottom right corner up in the corner.

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    Step 36: Now we go and get our friend in the corner again.

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    Step 37: And get the poor peg towards the center.

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    Step 38: We turn 90°.

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    Step 39: Now we have the famous arrow pointing left.

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    Step 40: We go with the peg one behind the arrow's head one circle around the arrow: Up

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    Step 41: Down twice

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    Step 42: Left and Up again.

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    Step 43: This is the position after doing the circle around the arrow: a lying T-figure.

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    Step 44: From there

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    Step 45: you take the center peg up

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    Step 46: the left peg to the center

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    Step 47: then the bottom two pegs up and then the two remaining pegs down.

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    Step 48: We solved our game with one peg in center remaining.

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    Step 49: Congratulations!

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    Step 50: Here is the complete game again: We clear the four side areas

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    Step 51: come to the arrow and then to the final lying T-figure.

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