Peg Solitaire — known in some countries as Brainvita or Solo Noble — is a single-player board puzzle that has entertained people for centuries, and this free online version brings it to your browser with no download. The board begins full of pegs except for one empty hole, and you thin the crowd one jump at a time until, ideally, a single peg remains.
A move means jumping one peg straight over an adjacent peg into the empty hole just beyond it; the peg you leap over is removed. Plan your jumps carefully, because a clumsy opening can strand pegs in far corners with nowhere to go. Choose the triangle-15 board for a gentle start or the classic 33-hole English cross for a sterner test.
Peg Solitaire has been a fireside favourite since at least the 17th century, and its appeal is timeless: simple to learn, fiendishly hard to solve perfectly. This free online version highlights every legal landing hole in green and supports satisfying chain jumps, so you can focus on strategy instead of fiddly controls. Polished gold pegs and a tactile board make it a pleasure to play in the browser, and leaving that final lone peg standing never stops feeling like a triumph.
The first hard evidence of the game is a 1697 French engraving of Princess Anne de Rohan-Chabot posing beside a board, and a persistent (if likely apocryphal) legend credits a prisoner in the Bastille with inventing it to pass the years. The puzzle has serious mathematical pedigree too: in 1912 English amateur Ernest Bergholt found an 18-move solution to the classic English board — counting chain jumps as a single move — and John Beasley later proved that nothing shorter is possible.
Remove pegs by jumping until only one peg is left. On Hard, that final peg must finish in the centre hole.
Tap or click a peg to select it — its legal landing holes glow green. Tap a glowing hole to jump there and remove the peg in between. If your landed peg can jump again it stays selected for chain jumps.
There is no points total — success is measured by how few pegs remain. Your best result (fewest pegs left) is saved. Easy is the 15-peg triangle, Medium is the 33-hole English board, and Hard is the English board where you must leave one peg dead centre.
Work toward the middle and avoid leaving lone pegs around the edges — they are the hardest to clear. In free online peg solitaire, setting up chain jumps is the key to a clean finish, so look two or three moves ahead before you commit.
Is Peg Solitaire always solvable?
The standard starting layouts used here can all be solved down to a single peg, but one careless early jump can strand pieces and make a perfect finish impossible — planning beats speed.
What is a good result in Peg Solitaire?
One peg remaining is the true win, and on Hard that final peg must sit in the centre hole. Ending with two or three pegs is a respectable near-miss worth building on.
What is the difference between the triangle and English boards?
The Easy triangle uses 15 holes and 14 pegs — a gentler puzzle — while the Medium and Hard games use the classic 33-hole English cross, which demands much deeper planning.
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