A previous article in this journal described observations on six young adults playing the board game pegity. The following article continues this description with observations on six children at each of the age levels five, seven, eleven and fifteen playing a league type series of pegity games. This gave the opportunity to observe the development of strategies of play both with age and with experience of the game. Special attention was paid to changes that took place between the ages of five and seven. Systematic errors were also observed. An explanation of some adult errors in developmental terms was attempted.
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