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Solitaire (UK name) is a tradional board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes, (Some sets use marbles in a board with indentations).
Game intention being to remove all pegs except one, remaining in centre hole.
Popularity
Solitaire is in many parts of the world known as Peg Solitaire, as the collection of card games known in the UK as Patience, are known elsewhere as Solitaire. The game is also known as Brainvita (especially in India).
Location
Solitaire is played in one form or another throughout the world. As it is a, small in size board game, many versions are available as travel sets, Making solitaire a game that can be played indoors and outside,
Age
Solitaire is game that can be played and enjoyed by a single player of any age from around eight years old, upwards. It is an ideal game to play while traveling.
Ability
There are many different solutions to the problem posed by the game of solitaire, It is very easy to go wrong and find you have two or three widely spaced lone pegs. Many people never manage to solve the problem.
Description
The game fills the entire board with pegs except for the central hole. The objective is, making valid moves, to empty the entire board except for a solitary peg, remaining in the central hole.
There are two traditional boards (Set out as below).
English European
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Dedication
A valid move consists of jumping over an adjacent peg and landing in an empty hole two positions away, and then removing the jumped peg. A peg may be moved in any of the four positions (up, down, left or right).
See diagram ( * indicates a peg in a hole, · indicates an empty hole).
Thus a valid move is,
* * · -> · · * Jump
Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.
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Arms
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Legs
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Sight
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Hearing
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Speech |
Learning |
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