Peg Solitaire
English cross
The 33-hole English cross has rows of 3, 3, 7, 7, 7, 3, 3. Empty d4 and finish at d4 in 31 jumps. This is the classic central game.
Rules
- Each jump needs two neighbouring pegs in a straight line and an empty hole immediately beyond them. The jumped peg is removed; every jump reduces the count by one.
- On square grids, jump horizontally or vertically. On the triangle, use any of the six directions parallel to its three sides. A diagonal on a square grid is never legal.
- The star marks the required finishing hole. One peg somewhere else is a different result, not a win in this target puzzle. You can undo a jump and explore a different route.
Learn
Keep pegs connected. Clearing an outer arm too early can strand a peg with no neighbour to jump over. Look at the whole board before choosing the next jump.
Think backwards from the target: which last pair could feed the final hole? Practise short endings first, then use the replay to see how a full solution builds those endings.
Solutions →All boards
English cross33 · d4 → d4 →European37 · c1 → e1 →Triangle15 · a1 → a1 →Diamond41 · d2 → f2 →Wiegleb45 · e5 → e5 →Square36 · c3 → c3 →