Hoffmann, Professor, 1839-1919 · London : Frederick Warne · leaf 356
No. XI.—Solitaire Problems. Solitaire, though commonly referred to as a game,belongs rather to the category of puzzles, the problems whichit affords being numerous and interesting. It is playedwith a circular board, as shown in Tigs. 460, 461, with thirty-seven hemispherical depressions,*. in each… … Fig. 460. Fig. 461. in a straight line (not diagonally) between it and the hole.This intervening ball is removed from the board (just as aman is takenat draughts), and another move is thenmade, after the same fashion, into one or other of the twoholes now left vacant, a fresh man being removed from…
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