Nine Men’s Morris - Strategy Board Game for Android

11 things about Nine Men’s Morris - Strategy Board Game

1. If a player is able to place three of his pieces on contiguous points in a straight line, vertically or horizontally, he has formed a mill and may remove one of his opponent's pieces from the board and the game, with the caveat that a piece in an opponent's mill can only be removed if no other pieces are available.

2. A player can "break" a mill by moving one of his pieces out of an existing mill, then moving it back to form the same mill a second time (or any number of times), each time removing one of his opponent's men.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Players continue to try to form mills and remove their opponent's pieces as in phase one.

6. The first player to get his opponent down to two pieces, or to block his opponent from making any legal moves, is the winner.

7. The game is also known as Nine Man Morris, Mill, Mills, The Mill Game, Merels, Merrills, Merelles, Marelles, Morelles and Nine penny Marl in English.

8. When a player is reduced to three pieces, there is no longer a limitation on that player of moving to only adjacent points: The player's men may "fly" from any point to any vacant point.

9. Nine Men's Morris is a solved game in which either player can force the game into a draw.

10. Nine Men's Morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire.

11. Each player has nine pieces, or "men", usually colored black and white.