You've seen this game on every table at every one of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores. I don't know the actual name for this little thing but it's a triangular piece of wood with 15 holes and 14 golf tees that is designed to frustrate and make us all fell like morons.
The game seems simple enough: you start by leaving any one hole empty and then proceed to jump over a tee (which you then remove from the board) until there is only one tee left. If you leave one you are a "genius", leave 2 you are "perty smart" , leave 3 or more and you are the "village idiot".
It took me a little while, but I got this thing figured out. At least one way. Here it is.
So if you want you can print this out and impress all your friends on how to solve this mind numbing game, but you have to start with #5 open and have to do it in this order.
14 jumps to 5.
7 jumps to 9
12 jumps 14
2 jumps to 7
11 jumps to 4
3 jumps to 8
10 jumps to 3
1 jumps to 6
6 jumps to 13
14 jumps to 12
4 jumps to 13
12 jumps to 14
15 jumps to 13
Disclaimer: If you bet your first born child on the outcome of a game using my strategy and you lose, then you cant sue me. Good luck!!
I am also well aware that there are other ways to solve it, here is just one example.
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