Triangular Peg Puzzle

A single-file, menu-driven Pygame app for the triangular peg solitaire variant, with configurator, solver, and animated playback from the game machinarium

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Reference

Demo

Features

• Unified menu:
  • Setup (Configurator): click pegs to cycle empty → red → green; save start layout.
  • Solve & Animation: runs the solver for the inner-triangle goal, shows steps under the board, play/pause, prev/next, and highlights the active ring.
  • Demo (Interactive): manual ring rotations on the live board.
• Correct board edges and rotation directions.
• HUD polish: centered status, step list (start state = step 0), non-flickering controls.

Install

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python main.py

Controls

Global

• M / Esc: back to menu
• R: reset the current mode to the configured start layout

Setup

• Click node: cycle empty → red → green
• R: reset to defaults
• P: print mapping

Demo (Interactive)

• Click 1: Ring A clockwise
• Click 4: Ring A counter-clockwise
• Click 3: Ring B counter-clockwise
• Click 7: Ring B clockwise
• Click 11: Ring C clockwise
• Click 12: Ring C counter-clockwise

Solve & Animation

• Prev / Next buttons: step backward/forward
• Play button or Space: toggle auto-play
• R: restart animation from the configured layout
• Highlight: active ring nodes are outlined yellow each step
• Status shows Step X/N | Next: <move> and a steps list under the board (step 0 = start state).

Goal

The solver aims to make the inner triangle {2, 6, 10, 9, 8, 5} all green.

Notes

• Tested on Windows with Python + Pygame.
• requirements.txt lists runtime dependencies.

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