<p>Use of pegs instead of "stones" suggests Gramps was imitating the commercial game "<a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6247/pegity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pegity</a>", which predates Pente by a number of years.  Pegity was played on a hole grid, with pegs (all plastic when my family played it in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though apparently originally wood).</p>

<p>I haven't seen a set in forty years so don't recall the grid dimension.  The main play difference between Pegity and go-moku (and the later, unexpanded Pente) was four different colors of pegs, at least in the plastic version -- the game still revolved around forming a row of 5 on rows, columns, or diagonals.  </p>

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2018-04-09T14:10:32.813Z
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Zeiss Ikon
<p>looks like a slightly smaller version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pente</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku" rel="nofollow noreferrer">go-moku</a>, which is usually played on a 19x19 board, but can be played on 15x15</p>

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Jeremy
<p>[The game was made by my husband’s grandfather in 1974, but we don’t know the name or the rules. Each end has 60 pegs. The playing space is 15 across and 15 spaces wide. Thanks for any help you can give. We’d love to play this.]<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/hj213.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>

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What's this game featuring a 15x15 peg board, and 60 pegs for the two sides?
Lisa
# What's this game featuring a 15x15 peg board, and 60 pegs for the two sides?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-04-08)

[The game was made by my husband’s grandfather in 1974, but we don’t know the name or the rules. Each end has 60 pegs. The playing space is 15 across and 15 spaces wide. Thanks for any help you can give. We’d love to play this.]![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/hj213.jpg)

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-04-09. Score: 3

Use of pegs instead of "stones" suggests Gramps was imitating the commercial game "[Pegity](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6247/pegity)", which predates Pente by a number of years. Pegity was played on a hole grid, with pegs (all plastic when my family played it in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though apparently originally wood).

I haven't seen a set in forty years so don't recall the grid dimension. The main play difference between Pegity and go-moku (and the later, unexpanded Pente) was four different colors of pegs, at least in the plastic version -- the game still revolved around forming a row of 5 on rows, columns, or diagonals.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2018-04-09. Score: 3

looks like a slightly smaller version of [Pente](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente) or [go-moku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku), which is usually played on a 19x19 board, but can be played on 15x15


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