The game pictured above was marketed by Piet Hein in 1968. This beautiful game consisted of an exotic hardword board. The rules to the game are simple. One player has the white pegs and the other player the black pegs. Players alternately place the pegs in any hole on the board.
White objective is to complete an unbroken chain between the two white sides.
Black tries to complete a similiar chain of pegs between the two black sides. The game cannot end in a draw since a player can only block another player by completing his own chain. Game theory has proven that there must be a winning strategy for the first player. However, no one has been able define the winning strategy. This game has been produced by a number of different game companies.