A Mild Diversion
Nine Men's Morris
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You
9
pieces left
Machine
9
pieces left
— not started —
How to play
Place — take turns placing pieces on empty points.
Mill — three in a row lets you remove an opponent's piece.
Move — once all pieces are placed, slide pieces to adjacent points.
Fly — when down to 3 pieces, move anywhere.
Win — reduce your opponent to 2 pieces or leave them with no legal moves.
Place — take turns placing pieces on empty points.
Mill — three in a row lets you remove an opponent's piece.
Move — once all pieces are placed, slide pieces to adjacent points.
Fly — when down to 3 pieces, move anywhere.
Win — reduce your opponent to 2 pieces or leave them with no legal moves.
A brief history
Nine Men's Morris is one of the oldest board games known to exist. Boards have been found carved into roofing slabs of the temple at Kurna in Egypt, dated around 1400 BCE. The Romans called it ludus latrunculorum. It appears in medieval manuscripts, scratched into the cloister seats of English cathedrals, and in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The mill — three in a row — is its governing logic: patient, incremental, and then suddenly decisive. A game for the mildly diverted.