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Peg Solitaire

The Game
Peg Solitaire is a single player puzzle.

The board consists of holes (33) and pegs (initially 32). The center position only is open.
The final, solved, state has left 1 peg in the center position when 31 moves have striked the other pegs.

A move takes a peg over it's neigbour (horizontally or vertically) to an empty hole.
The peg that was jumped over is removed from the game.
See picture below for a reduced image of an initial- and a solved game:


initial board state	final solution

Options

play	search for solutions
replay	replay previous moves or solution
search	have computer search for solutions
place	place balls at board to create starting position for search
select	select 1 of 12 preset games, from easy to difficult
save	save board / solution to disk
reload	reload game from disk
add to print queue	add a solution to the print queue
print	print previously stored solutions
in line help
P - filter	permutation filter removes similar solutions : same moves in different sequence

Installation
Download solitaire2.exe by clicking on the download icon at the left top of this page.
There is no installation procedure: simply copy the program to a map of choice.
The windows registry is not changed.

Additions to solitaire 1
New options :

- place
- select
- save
- reload

In solitaire1, the P-filter (permutation filter) removed similar solutions afterwards, when a solution was found.
Solitaire2 skips similar move sequences already during the search process.
The speedup is enormous : over 100 times in many cases for more difficult puzzles.

Also, solitaire2 recognizes unsolvable puzzles before the search is started.

have fun!

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