A Batch of Peg Games
A while back I heard about some new auction app and skimmed some listings and found these little wooden peg games. They made me think of the times I would be out on a road trip somewhere and stop at a little diner, and they would have games likes these. Though the diners usually had variations of simple peg solitaire ("golf") and no dice to roll. These were all simple racing games, dressed up in sport themes. Just roll dice and move. They each came in plastic wrap with a red and a blue peg and two dice. The football one was playable. The golf one was unplayable because there were more negatives than positives, especially -3 spaces for rolling a 7; but Anne did roll a two on her second roll and got a hole-in-one win. For the next 10 minutes I don't think either of reached the halfway mark before getting sent back. The derby game was just going around in circles, and we used an extra die each to track which lap we were on. The rules for tennis were cut off but I gue