Tribal Warrior Peg Solitaire - Yellow and Red

A durable and vibrant hand-painted tribal peg solitaire board game with solitaire pegs designed as African tribal warriors - Amazing Africa is proud to bring you this set. The board has a frame decorated with intricately painted African scenes and wildlife. The solitaire pieces are initially sculpted by hand based on an African tribal warrior, then carefully crafted in durable polystone and finally hand painted by our team of South African artists.

Visitors to Africa love taking home this tribal solitaire set as the perfect gift or collectible by which to remember their African travels.

In the beginning, the board is filled with pegs (the animal playing pieces). The objective is to empty the entire board of its pegs except for one solitary peg in the centre of the board.

Amazing Africa Gifts crafting details

The unique pegs, board and board frame are all hand-crafted. The peg and board designs are carved by hand to create molds which are then used to cast the playing pegs and board themselves from polystone (a mixture of ground stone and resin) by hand. The pegs and board frame are then painted by painted by hand by our South African artists using Winsor and Newton oil paints.

The board has a felt base underneath to ensure durability.

The full set takes approximately four (4) hours for our craftspeople and artists to create, with allocation of time between for drying of the paint.

Set sizes

• 33 holes in the board (1 will is empty)
• 32 African tribal warrior themed peg pieces per set
• Height of warrior-themed pegs: 3.2 cm
• Base diameter of pegs: 1.2 cm
• Size of circular solitaire board: 28 cm diameter x 3 cm height
• Packed size: 31 cm x 31 cm x 7 cm
• Weight fully packed: 2.5 kg

Packaging

Our peg solitaire sets are packaged with the utmost care to ensure that they arrive safely after even the longest shipment.

The board is wrapped in bubble wrap to avoid damage while in transit and, along with the pegs, it is placed in a sturdy double-walled cardboard box which is filled with polystyrene packing peanuts. The pegs are placed in small packets within this box to limit the movement of the individual pieces.

While we take the greatest care to ensure that the set gets to you in one piece, we know that accidents do happen – so, if any pieces arrived damaged, we will replace them entirely at no cost to you.

More about solitaire

Peg solitaire is also called Solo Noble and is thought to have originated in Madagascar. A similar game called Bainvita is also found in India and surrounding countries. First evidence of written rules of the game along with board designs was published in the August 1687 edition of the French literary magazine 'Mercure galant'.

The standard game uses pegs to cover the board except for the central hole, and the player aims to empty the entire board until only one peg remains. Adjacent pegs are moved over one another at right or perpendicular angles. The peg over which a player moves another peg is then removed.

There are two types of boards, the English and the European. Our sets use the English board and does not have the additional four holes of a European board.

Some complex mathematical strategies have been developed to master this game, but to be honest, we just enjoy playing it to relax and enjoy ourselves, especially with these beautifully crafted animal pieces and board.

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