In the game of hoppers, a variant of peg solitaire, your goal is to "hop" over pegs, removing any peg that you leap over, until there is only one left. See if you can do it without having to make a diagonal jump.

First click on one square to remove a peg from the board. Then select one of the remaining red pegs by clicking on it. It turns blue. That peg can move if it can jump over another peg and land on an empty square. If it can't, select another peg. Keep going until there are no more legal moves. Can you get it down to just one peg?

NOTE: To play this game, your Web browser must be able to run Java applets.

Java applet created by Eric Peterson, 16, Washington, D.C.

A teacher's guide for the commercial puzzle Hoppers™ is available from ThinkFun at http://education.puzzles.com/plans/hoppersguide.pdf.

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