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Ystol Gunddo

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Known as Peg Solitare this is a board game for one person involving the movement of pegs or marbles on a board with holes or indentations. The first evidence of this game comes from the time of the court of Louis XIV in 1697, with an engraving made that year picturing Claude Auguste Berey of Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise with the puzzle by her side. The 1697 edition of the French magazine Mercure galant contains a description of the board, rules and sample problems. The standard game fills the entire board with pegs except for the central hole. The objective is, making valid moves, to empty the entire board except for a solitary peg in the central hole.

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Amgueddfa Cymru
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Frederic Evans
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