Marbles – The Triangle Puzzle

 

Game Objective

Board has 15 slots. Game starts with 14 slots filled with a marble and 1 slot empty. Objective of the game is to remove the marbles from the board one at a time and end with only one marble left on the board. Most of the time you will end up with more that one on the board!!

 

Trust me it is possible to end with just one.  ;)

 

How to play?

You can remove a marble from the board when another marble jumps over it to land in a slot adjacent to it

  1. Click on a marble to select it. The marble will turn red
  2. Empty slots in which the marble can be placed are highlighted in green
  3. Click on one of the green slots to move the marble to the new slot
  4. Note that the marble that was “jumped over” is removed

 

Continue until you cannot make anymore moves.

 

How to move the widget to a desired location on the desktop?

If the background is not visible then hold the Control key (Ctrl) down, simultaneously click and drag any of the marble or empty slot to the desired location on the desktop. Release the mouse button to place the widget.

 

If the background is visible, simply drag the background.

 

 

How to start a new game?

  1. To play a new game:

                    Right click on a marble or an empty slot & select “Play New Game”

  1. To play the same game again:

                  Right click on a marble or an empty slot & select “Play                       Same Game”

 

 

Preferences

  1. Color Scheme:

               Use this option to change the color scheme of the widget

 

  1. At the end of each game:

               Use this option to specify what to do after completing a game. One of the 3 options below can be used:

                                                      i.            Do nothing

                                                    ii.            Start a new game automatically

                                                   iii.            Restart the same game again  automatically

 

  1. Enable Toolbar:

         When this option is enabled, toolbar is displayed when the widget has the focus

 

  1. Enable Hints:

         When this option is enabled, all empty slots to which a                       selected marble can be moved are highlighted in green.                       If there are no valid empty slots that can receive the                           selected marble, then none of the empty slots are                              highlighted.

 

  1. Enable Sound:

If this option is checked sound effects are played while moving the marbles. Also sound effects are played when the games starts or ends.

 

  1. Enable Animation:

When this option is enabled, the marbles will move           smoothly from one slot to another. When this option is      disabled, marble will disappear from one slot and appear   in another one.

 

  1. Enable Background:

When this option is enabled, background is shown.

 

 

 

Credits

Based on the peg board game popularized by Cracker Barrel restaurants in America.