Peg solitaire

An ancient solitaire board game

Peg solitaire (Solo Noble, Brainvita) is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes.

The objective is, making valid moves, to empty the entire board except for a solitary peg in the central hole.

The first evidence of the game can be traced back to the court of Louis XIV, and the specific date of 1687, with an engraving made that year by Claude Auguste Berey of Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, with the puzzle by her side. The August, 1687 edition of the French literary magazine Mercure galant contains a description of the board, rules and sample problems. This is the first known reference to the game in print.