Sunday 17 December 2017

Brainvita or Peg solitaire



Have you ever played Brainvita? The circular board game with many holes in it, played usually alone with many marbles. Yes, I am talking about the same game which you must have played when you were getting bored alone. Let me tell you first it is not only a game of marbles and some positioned holes rather it is a strategic game involved mathematics which helps your brain development.
This game Brainvita is actually known as Peg Solitaire worldwide. it involves the movement of pegs on a board with holes. Some played it using marbles, the type we usually find in toy stores. In the UK this game is simply known as the solitaire. In the standard game, the board is entirely filled with pegs leaving the central hole. The objective is to make the entire board empty except for a solitary peg in the central hole by making only valid movements. The valid move is to jump a peg (or marble in case of Brainvita) orthogonally or perpendicularly over an adjacent peg into a hole two positions away and then to remove the jumped peg(or marbles). We can also say that we can make a valid move by jumping or skipping a peg towards the right or left or up or down on the board and by removing the peg which we jumped. There are two types of standard boards English and European. The European traditional board contains 4 more holes than the English one. There are many solutions which can be easily found on the internet for both the European and English type. But there are solutions which are claimed and proved to be the shortest also. Peg solitaires can be played on any size and shape of boards with a different number of holes. One of the variants which are very popular nowadays is a triangular board in which jumps are allowed in all three directions. So don't wait and start playing. Give your brain some good exercise.... 

Friday 8 December 2017

Dominoes are not about pizza only





Hey! that is true. Whenever we hear the word 'domino' our noses filled with the rich fragrance of herbs, our mouth waters with the taste of pizza. But hold your thought. Here I am not talking about domino's pizza instead I am talking about dominoes game.
Dominoes is a family of strategy games played with rectangular "domino" tiles. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end of which is marked with a number of dots starting from zero to six. This game is originated from China. This is known to be a game which is originated to show the faces of double dice throw (as in probability). The tiles are also known as bones or bone sticks. this game is later introduced to Europe. Later a lot of versions of his game were introduced. Blank faces tiles were introduced very late. The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes. The heaviest tile or the highest value piece has 6 pips (or dots) on each end. The player with the highest of doubles within his tiles generally plays first.
So this is the time to forget about comics, video games, mobile phones and start playing this wonderful game. You can easily make these tiles at home using cardboard plane sheets and a marker. All you need to do is to watch a simple video to learn how to play this game and you are all set to play.
So, Best of Luck!! and yes don't forget to tell me whether you like it or not? 

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