GAME OF THE MILL (Nine Men's Morris)

MILL GAME. BOARD GAMES FOR ROMANS!

The mill game or mill is an abstract strategy board game for two players originating in the Roman Empire.1 The game is referred to as alquerque de nine in the Book of Games and is also known as nine men's Morris or Morris. In English it is known as Nine Men's Morris, Mill, Mills, Merels, Merelles, and Merrills; in French it is known as jeu du moulin; and in Piedmontese it is known as grisha.

Rules of the game

Each player has nine pieces, or "men", which move on the board between twenty-four intersections. The object of the game is to leave the opponent with fewer than three pieces or no possible move.

Piece placement

The board at the beginning of the game, before any pieces are placed.

The game begins with an empty board. Players take turns placing their pieces on the empty intersections. If a player is able to form a row of three pieces along one of the lines on the board, he has a "mill" and may remove one of his opponent's pieces on the board; removed pieces cannot be put back into play. Players must remove any other pieces before removing a piece that is part of a mill. Once all 18 pieces have been placed, players take turns moving.

Movement of the pieces

To move, the player slides one of his pieces along a line on the board to an adjacent empty intersection. If he cannot do so, he has lost the game.

As in the placement stage, a player who places three of his pieces in a line on the board has a mill and can remove one of his opponent's pieces, avoiding pieces that are part of a mill, if possible.

Any player with only two pieces left will not be able to remove any more of his opponent's pieces and will therefore lose the game.

Flight

In a common variant, once a player is reduced to three pieces, his pieces can "fly," "hop, "23 or "jump "4 to any empty intersection, not just adjacent ones. Some rules sources say this is the way the game is played,34 others treat it as a variant,2567 and some do not mention it at all.8 A "Handbook of Nineteenth Century Games" calls this the "truly rustic way to play it. "2

Source: WIKI (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juego_del_molino)

IMPRINT.

Scale the board and tiles to the scale you want, for home or travel.

You must make 9 tiles of one color and another nine, of another color.

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