Peg solitaire, Solo Noble or simply Solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. Some sets use marbles in a board with indentations. The game is known as solitaire in Britain and as peg solitaire in the US where 'solitaire' is now the common name for patience. It is also called Brainvita in India, where sets are sold commercially under this name. The first evidence of the game can be traced back to the court of Louis XIV, and the specific date of 1697, with an engraving made ten years later by Claude Auguste Berey of Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, with the puzzle by her side. The August 1697 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. 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. Board There are two traditional boards ('.' as an initial peg, 'o' as an initial hole): Play A valid move is to jump a peg orthogonally over an adjacent peg into a hole two positions away and then to remove the jumped peg. In the diagrams which follow, · indicates a peg in a hole, * emboldened indicates the peg to be moved, and o indicates an empty hole. A blue is the hole the current peg moved from; a red is the final position of that peg, a red is the hole of the peg that was jumped and removed. Thus valid moves in each of the four orthogonal directions are: * · o → Jump to right o · * → Jump to left * · → Jump down o o · → Jump up * On an English board, the first three moves might be: · · · · · · · · · · · · · * · · · · o · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · o o · · · · · · o · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·