Winning the game, or solving the puzzle, can be rather hard. There are 76 possible jumps or moves in total. You can only make two possible jobs from the edges of the board, and one jump from the middle rows of the outside edges. If a marble is in the middle of the board, you can jump it in any direction you want. The marbles may only be jumped horizontally or vertically, not diagonally. 32 of the pegs or holes are filled with marbles, and jumping one marble over the other removes that marble from play. The board game has 33 holes arrayed in a cross formation. A French engraving of Princess de Soubise seems to show her playing the game, and the engraving seems to date back to 1697, suggesting that the game may have been invented sometime in the late 1600s. (Incidentally, the card game Solitaire is known as Patience in the UK). The board starts full of marbles except for one spot in the center, and the objective is to remove all the marbles by jumping them over one another until there is only one marble remaining in the center. Peg or marble solitaire, is a game probably invented in France and it involves the moving of marbles or pegs around a board with small holes. Photo: Annielogue via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 How many pieces do you have left? Play again to see if you can do better.The European variant of the Solitaire board. Continue making jumps, and removing pieces until all possible captures have been made.Start by jumping into an empty space and removing the jumped piece.All jumps go over an adjacent piece to an empty.A captured piece is removed from the board.A capture is made by jumping over a piece.For Triangle-plus, leave empty one of the two Place one marble playing piece in each hole except the center one Turn the game board so that the triangle's base is closest to you. The last piece in the center space that was initially empty. A big win is to remove all of the pieces except one. The object of the game is to remove as many piecesĪs you can from the board. Own marbles with homemade Modeling Dough. You need 14 marbles (or playing pieces, 20 for Triangle-plus)) to go with the Glue from around the tiles and from the holes. Once you are satisfied with the tile arrangement, carefully glue each Be sure to arrange the tiles so that there is aĭifferent-colored hexagon at each corner of the triangle. With a pencil will make it easier for you to place the tilesĪccurately. Tip: Lightly marking the center of each circle The tiles will fit together to form a solid surface. Step 8: Glue Tiles to Game BoardĪrrange the tile pieces on the game board before gluing them in place. Tip: If the hole punch can't reach to the markedĬircle, cut on the line between two tiles and slip the punch through Use the circle in theĬenter of the hexagon as a guide. Punch a hole in the center of each hexagon. Step 7: Cut Tile Pieces and PunchĬut out each of the three tile pieces on the outline. Make it easier to fit them on the cardboard. Tip: You can cut apart the three tile pieces to Be sure to cover the tile pieces completely, edge-to-edge, Cardboardįrom an empty cereal box works well. Step 6: Glue Tiles to CardboardĬut a piece of cardboard big enough for all three tile pieces. White paper, color the squares with any colors you like, or If you printed the black and white Marble Tiles pattern on Tip: The Marble Tiles are optional and are for Choose the pattern that goes with your game board. Print the pattern for the Marble Tiles on computer Tip: Be sure that the glue goes from edge to edge and into the corners. Trim away the extra cardboard around the edges of the game board. Glue the game board to the cardboard.Ĭardboard from an empty cereal box works well. If you printed on cardstock, or if you want to make a paper board.Ĭut a piece of cardboard a little bigger than the game board. If you have printed on computer paper, you may want to glue the board to cardboard. Outline or leave equal borders of white on all sides of the game board. Trim the game board pattern to a triangle shape on the black Tip: If you printed a colored version of the board, you can still add a personal touchīy decorating the border around it. You could color theĪlternating colors-pick two contrasting colors or leave half the squares white. If you printed the black and white pattern, color the game board with any colors you like. When printing from Adobe Reader, you may need to select Auto-Rotate and Center or Choose paper source by PDF page size to ensure the best fit. All of Aunt Annie's project patterns are designed to be printed on standard letter-size paper (8.5"x11" or A4).
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