The Nine Men’s Morris board
Nine Men’s Morris is played on 24 points joined by lines, with nine pieces each. Learn the board, where mills can form and who moves first. How Nine Men’s Morris works · lesson 1 of 4.
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The board has 24 points on three squares, one inside the other, joined by four short lines across the middle of each side.
Each player has nine pieces, which start off the board. Gold moves first.
Three points in a straight line along a side of a square, like the top edge here, or along one of the joining lines, can make a mill. There are 16 possible mills.
The game starts with placing: players take turns putting one piece on any empty point.
Try it: Place your first piece.
That’s the board. Next: making a mill.
Questions
How many pieces does each player have?
Nine each, hence the name.
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