OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 38628

solitaire

/ˈsɒl.ɪˌtɛə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Senku
A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
The early French solitaire boards were marked with thirty-seven holes instead of the modern board's thirty-three; and the problems were more difficult.
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