Making a mill and removing a piece
Three of your pieces in a line is a mill, and every new mill lets you remove one of your opponent’s pieces. Learn the rule, and which pieces you can take. How Nine Men’s Morris works · lesson 2 of 4.
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When you make a mill, three of your pieces in a line, you remove one of your opponent’s pieces from the board.
You have two pieces on the top line.
Try it: Make a mill, then tap an ivory piece to remove it.
Pieces in a mill are protected: you can’t remove one unless all of your opponent’s pieces are in mills.
You’ve just made a mill.
Try it: Tap every ivory piece you’re allowed to remove.
Mills remove pieces, but pieces in a mill are protected. Next: moving and flying.
Questions
Can you remove one?
Yes. When all of your opponent’s pieces are in mills, you can take any of them.
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