I stopped at a garage sale a few weeks back and found a couple of good deals; one of them was this neat old game — The 3 Square Puzzler.
The box is pretty nondescript, and looks like it’s seen better days.
Inside is a milled & finished oak block with a series of holes for moving the pegs. The pegs themselves are pretty heavy duty; all metal. The finish on the gold-colored pegs is a bit worn, but it’s still pretty easy to tell which is which.
The goal of the game is for one player to move the silver pegs to the holes occupied by the gold pegs before the other player moves the gold pegs to the other side. The rules are pretty simple; you move the pieces one hole at a time, jumping other pegs when possible, much like Chinese Checkers.
It’s a fun game, and kind of a classy relic. The label on the box is pretty faded, but still somewhat legible;
SETKO MODEL NO. 8114
3 SQUARE PUZZLER
another HOYLE OFFICIAL game
In addition to the instructions on the inside of the box lid, there is a line that says the copyright was obtained in 1964 by the “Set Screw & Mfg. Co.” A Google search on that name comes up empty, but it kinda makes sense that a set screw manufacturer would make something like this.
Probably not much of a collector’s piece, but I like it. Not bad for 25 cents, eh?