Nine Men’s Moris

Nine-Mens-Morris, Mill, or Merels goes back to the Roman times. It is a two player startagy game where the object is to capture the oponents pieces until they can either not make a mill or can not move. You make a mill by moving three pieces in a row along any of the vertical or horizontal lines. This game has made a comeback since the online game World of Warcraft.

This crafted game comes with the wood board and a wooden cover(upside down box) that will hold all the game pieces. Rules of the Game: Player's toss a coin to decide who will play first. The first move has a slight advantage. Play is in two phases. First Phase: Players take turns to play a piece of their own color on any unoccupied point until all eighteen pieces have been played. Second Phase: Each turn consists of a player moving one piece along a line to an adjacent point.

During both of these phases, whenever a player achieves a mill, that player immediately removes from the board one piece belonging to the opponent that does not form part of a mill. If all the opponent's pieces form mills then an exception is made and the player is allowed to remove any piece. It is only upon the formation of a mill that a piece is captured but a player will often break a mill by moving a piece out of it and then, in a subsequent turn, play the piece back again, thus forming a new mill and capturing another piece. Captured pieces are never replayed onto the board. The game is finished when a player is reduced to two pieces or is unable to move.