English Sixteen Puzzle
Publisher: Public Domain · Developer: Pentagramm Software
The English Sixteen puzzle is peg jumping puzzle that is essentially a 2-dimensional analogue of the Leaping Frogs puzzle. The board has two 3×3 grids of holes which share one corner hole. Initially the shared hole is empty and the rest is filled with 8 pegs of one colour in one half of the board and 8 pegs of a second colour in the other half. You are allowed to shift a peg to an adjacent hole or you can jump a peg over another if the hole is immediately behind that. The aim is to swap the colours, moving every peg to the other half of the board in as few moves as possible. In some versions of the puzzle your moves are restricted by one or both of the following rules: - A peg is only allowed to shift/jump forwards, not backwards. - A peg may only jump a peg of the other colour, not one of the same colour. These restrictions are essentially the same as draughts/checkers so sometimes this version of the puzzle is played on a checkered board with pieces on the black squares.
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