This is a truly great site. I was very pleased to see a good, jargon-lite explaination for how to go about solving Hi-Q (Peg Solitaire) especially because this is something I have broken my head over off and on ever since my high school days. (I suppose that calls for both :-) and :-(, eh? :-p

I am trying to follow the instructions given at
https://www.cut-the-knot.org/proofs/pegsolitaire.shtml
and managed to clear till the 4th "package". However I end up with the following configuration(hope the formatting comes out all right).

O O O

O O O

X X O O O O O

X X X O O O O

X X X X O O O

X X O

X X X

I do not know how to proceed further. Have I done anything wrong?
I also suspect that my 6-package clearances are not "canonical" clearances. Would anyone be kind enough to write out the further moves and the moves of the 6 package clearance a in algebric notation?

Thanks in advance,
Girish

>However I end
>up with the following configuration(hope the formatting
>comes out all right).

You can use html tags, but with brackets instead of triangular parentheses.

>
> O O O
>
> O O O
>
>X X O O O O O
>
>X X X O O O O
>
>X X X X O O O
>
> X X O
>
> X X X
>
>
>
>I do not know how to proceed further. Have I done anything
>wrong?

Not so far. This is exactly what you should have obtained after removing the 4th package.

Continue as follows, with the reference to the attached figure:
(A move is referred to by the location of its starting peg)

a3, c4, a4, c5, a5, c2

This removes package #5. To remove package #6 do this:

d5, c7, c4, e7, c7, b5