The rules to get you started
In brief
The English board has 33 holes and starts with the center empty. The last marble must return to the center. The French board has 37 holes; in this app, the starting empty hole is C1 and the final target is E7.
Two boards, two starting positions
The English board has 33 holes and starts with the center empty. The last marble must return to the center. The French board has 37 holes; in this app, the starting empty hole is C1 and the final target is E7.
A legal jump
A marble jumps over an adjacent marble into an empty hole immediately beyond it. The jump is horizontal or vertical, never diagonal. The marble jumped over is removed.
Winning the game
To win, you must leave just one marble, placed in the target hole. A lone marble elsewhere is not enough. If no jump is possible and the objective has not been reached, the game is stuck.
Hints in this app
The hint shows a legal jump. It does not calculate a complete solution or guarantee that the suggested jump will lead to a win.
A situation to observe
In the initial English board layout, D4 is empty. The marble at D2 can jump over D3 and land at D4. D2 and D3 become empty; D4 becomes occupied.