The player makes successive capturing moves, removing a single piece each turn until is it impossible to make any more capturing moves.Įach turn, the player captures a piece by jumping over that piece orthogonally (not diagonally) from one adjacent point to the vacant adjacent point on the other side. Solitaire is played by one person and is therefore technically not a game at all, but a puzzle. The objective is to remove every piece except one, with the final piece ending up in the centre hole.
The game is set up so that pieces fill every hole except the middle hole. Solitaire can also be played on other shapes of board - two of the most interesting are a 41 point board (take the 33 point board and add 3 extra points at the 4 ends of the cross) and the 45 point board (take the 37 point board and add a single point in the middle of each of the 4 square ends - to makes a square). In France and Sweden a 37 point board is more common with 36 pegs, marbles or pieces. The game of Solitaire is most commonly played on a 33 point board (as pictured above left) in a cross shape with 32 pegs, marbles or pieces.
