1. Peg Solitaire is played on a cross-shaped board with 33 points filling the cross.

2. The player starts with 32 BEADs; the colour is not important.

3. BEADs are placed on every point, except for the middle point which should remain empty.

1. The player can only make capture moves.

2. A capturing move is made by jumping a BEAD over another and into an empty point on the board adjacent to the captured BEAD.

3. Captures can be chained together if, upon jumping over a BEAD and capturing it, the BEAD is adjacent to another BEAD with an empty space beyond it.

4. Chained captures can change direction.

5. The captured BEAD is immediately removed from the board.

To win the game the player must remove all the BEADs from the board except for a single BEAD, which should be in the centre hole.

1. The first known evidence of the game can be traced back to the rule of Louis XIV, and the specific date of 1687, with an engraving made that year by Claude Auguste Berey of Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, with the game by her side.

2. The August 1687 edition of the French literary magazine "Mercure galant" contains a description of the board, rules and gameplay samples. This is the first known reference to the game in print.