The General Rules of A Peg Solitaire Puzzle

Puzzle Board

There are two traditional boards, graphically depicted as follows ("." as in initial ped, "o" as an initial hole):

   English          European          Our version
    . . .             . . .                .
    . . .           . . . . .             . .
. . . . . . .     . . . . . . .          . . .
. . . o . . .     . . . o . . .         . . . .
. . . . . . .     . . . . . . .        . . . . .
    . . .           . . . . .
    . . .             . . .

The board's shape in our version is a 5x5 triangle and user is allowed to choose where to make the first hole.

Playing the game

A valid move is to jump a peg orthogonally over an adjacent peg into a hole two positions away and then to remove the jumped peg.

In the diagrams which follow, * indicates a peg (in a hole) and "." indicates an empty hole.

Thus valid moves in each of the four orthogonal directions are:

 * * .  ->  . . *  Jump to right

 . * *  ->  * . .  Jump to left

 *      .
 *  ->  .  Jump down
 .      *

 .      *
 *  ->  .  Jump up
 *      .

Goal

The objective is to empty the entire board except one remaining peg.

Additional information can be found here.