Jump Peg Game

[HandyDan]

Last year Jesse aka @Smallpatch offered to send us plans for this and some other games and I took him up on it.  Thank you Jesse for your generosity.  I decided to make some to give as a small gift at this years family Christmas party.  I ordered up 500 golf tees and used them all.  For the game board I used some scraps I had lying around that had Formica glued to them figuring the holes would be crisper and I was right.  The holes came out beautiful.  Each board has 15 holes for 15 pegs.  I didn't like the length of the golf tees and cut 1/2" off each one.  That was nuts.  Surprisingly there were only 5 bad tees in the box but there was less tees than it said on the box.  500 should have made 33 with some left over.  Only had enough for 32 and only had the bad ones left over.

 

 

[4DThinker]

Quite an undertaking!  I made several a few years back as gifts for family members.   If you need Ts for another one each game has one spare that it doesn't need.  The game requires one open hole to jump into to start. 

When I made mine I found a source for assorted color tees.  As the ones I made were Christmas gifts I only use the green and red ones.   The rest I gave to one of my local golf courses. 

4D

Edited December 15, 2022 by 4DThinker

[Smallpatch]

Dan looks like you were the only one who has made any so far. How about another puzzle for next year?

 

I gave these out for a few years now and its actually harder than it looks.  Just make the wood square before you start cutting it up.

  

Smallpatch

[HandyDan]

4 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

If you need Ts for another one each game has one spare that it doesn't need. 

 

Thanks.  Thought of that but you're supposed to choose the peg you want to remove first.  I haven't golfed in a few years.  Last night I dug into the bag and found over 30 tees in it.  I am good to go.

[Grandpadave52]

Holy Moley...thats a lot of holes! Good on you @HandyDan. Those will be a hit. No one can resist that game. First thing my grandsons grab at Cracker Barrel. I made a few several years back for gifts. Need to do that again.

 

Assume you made some sort of template /jig to drill that many holes?

[HandyDan]

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

I gave these out for a few years now and its actually harder than it looks.  Just make the wood square before you start cutting it up.

 

Thanks Jesse.  You sent me one of those puzzles along with the other plans.  Thinking of doing those next year.

[HandyDan]

9 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Assume you made some sort of template /jig to drill that many holes?

 

Thanks Dave.  Thought of making a template from steel and taping it on but didn't.  I found an easy way to mark where they go and then used an automatic center punch on each.  It was quite the undertaking.

Edited December 15, 2022 by HandyDan

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

Back in the early 70s I was Assistant Cubmaster for our oldest boy's Cub Pack. One year we made those peg games to sell at a local festival for a fund raising event. So one of the fathers in the pack was a draftsman and drew up an elaborate drawing of a jig to drill the holes. It was a 2 sided triangle you slipped the piece of wood into, and then the top had the holes lined up to drill through. Then another father was a machinist for what was then Cincinnati Millicron and he built 5 of the jigs out of some kind of hard aluminum. Another couple of fathers cut the wood triangles (I didn't have a shop back then, so I wasn't much help) and they got handed to the fathers that had drill presses to drill the holes. By the time it was all over we probably made 200 of them. They sold quite well as I recall. I think you still see them on the tables at Cracker Barrel restaurants.

Edited December 15, 2022 by Fred W. Hargis Jr

[lew]

My first thought was what @Fred W. Hargis Jr said about Cracker Barrel- yep they still have them on the tables!  Man, that was a lot of drilling but the results are fantastic, @HandyDan!

 

@Smallpatch, those are neat puzzles! Thanks for showing them.

[Gerald]

My MIL was the only person I know who could solve that puzzle every time .

[HandyDan]

58 minutes ago, Gerald said:

My MIL was the only person I know who could solve that puzzle every time .

 

You can cheat.  There are YouTube videos showing how to do it.

[HARO50]

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

You can cheat.  There are YouTube videos showing how to do it.

Figured it out years ago, but every time I pick one up, I have to work it out all over again.

[4DThinker]

6 hours ago, HandyDan said:

 

Thanks.  Thought of that but you're supposed to choose the peg you want to remove first.  I haven't golfed in a few years.  Last night I dug into the bag and found over 30 tees in it.  I am good to go.

Doesn't matter.  With one hole open that you don't want to use as a start hole you just remove the one from the hole you want to start with and put it in the original open hole.  Thinks of it as a 6.7% saving on the cost of the T's. 

As for golf, I should look into starting up that hobby now that I'm retired.   My Grandfather was an architect who lived in northern Iowa and he had designed the clubhouse for a golf course and also his own house that was just past the 8th hole.   We would either play golf as kids when we visited, or search the creek that ran through the course for lost balls. Any we found we could sell to golfers or add to our personal collections.  Usually on any day we could find a half dozen or so.  Running or just walking around 9 holes was enough to wear 6 kids out. 

4D

[John Hechel]

On 12/15/2022 at 9:38 AM, Grandpadave52 said:

Assume you made some sort of template /jig to drill that many holes?

a simple template would be to lay out one base, drill holes all the way through and drive screws in until the tips stick out about 1/8". line them up/ give a couple taps with a mallet and you've made the mark.