Merrel, Mill,

Nine Men’s Morris

Where is it from???This game was found in Egypt, South Africa,

Europe, England, the Seychelles, middle east, etc.

From: « Libro de los juegos »,

Almost 1000 years ago

Thousand years ago, in prisons, english prisonners

would play it

Freemasons played it on top of cathedrals being built

• Carved very faintly on the base of the northern most column is a 'nine mens morris' board.

How to play• Each of two players

take turns placing a counter on any empty point.

• When all 18 counters have been used, players take turns moving one counter at each turn to the next empty point along a line.

• Jumping is not permitted.

Goal: the « mill »

• Each player tries to make a row of three counters of the same color along any straight line. This is called a "mill".

• A player who makes a mill then can remove one of the opponent's counters from the board - if it is not part of an opponent's "mill".

Towards the end…

• When there are no longer any counters on the board that are not part of a "mill", a player may then take a counter from an opponent's "mill".

• Counters taken from the board cannot be used again in that game.

• The loser is one who only has two counters on the board or is blocked from moving.