Nine Mens Morris

The board consists of a grid with twenty-four intersections or points.

Each player has nine pieces, or "men", usually coloured black and white. Players try to form 'mills'—three of their own men lined horizontally or vertically—allowing a player to remove an opponent's man from the game.

A player wins by reducing the opponent to two pieces (where he could no longer form mills and thus be unable to win), or by leaving him without a legal move.

The game proceeds in three phases:

1- Placing men on vacant points

2- Moving men to adjacent points

(optional phase)

3- Moving men to any vacant point when the player has been reduced to three men

The game is highly addictive!

Also know as Nine Man Morris, Mill, Mills, The Mill Game, Merels, Merrills, Merelles, Marelles, Morelles and Nine game.