This will guarantee at least one mill to be formed for you. While placing counters, try to place two at opposite corners of any empty square.
Notice the three sequentially smaller squares that make up the playing board. The player placing the first counter is given considerable advantage in this game and to be fair the game should be played twice or any even number of times with the first move alternating between players.įirst, a good defense: if your opponent forms a mill, you should try and block the counters of that mill from moving in and out of the mill and taking one of your counters every time. Any mill that has been formed by a player may be broken by that player to be reformed later, capturing another counter. Upon forming a mill of their own counters, a player is entitled to capture any one of their opponent’s counters on the board, so long as that captured counter is not itself part of a mill. Diagonal rows of three counters may be formed in this game but are not mills. Such a formation is here called a “mill”.
During placement and movement of the counters, players attempt to make horizontal or vertical rows of three counters of their color along any line. Alternate turns entail the placement of a single counter of your color at any vacant position on the board or the movement of a single counter of your color along a line to an adjacent vacant position. The objective is to reduce your opponent’s counters from twelve to two or to immobilize your opponent’s counters so that they are unable to make a legal move.Įach player commences the game with twelve counters of one color in-hand. Boards of this style are known from archaeological sites in many places of the Old World, but are especially common from Northern Europe Nordic, Germanic and Celtic cultures. This game's nearly worldwide distribution indicates that it is probably indeed very ancient.
Jirig (Mongolia), Sam K’i ( Three Chess, China), Kon-tjil (Korea), Dig Dig (Malaysia), Shah and Shax (Somalia), Yakaimado (Madera City, California-Shoshonian Stock, Mono Indians), Eleven Men's Morris (when playing with eleven counters per player), Eleven-penny Madell (Wiltshire, England), Nerenchi (Sri Lanka)Ī triple mill with diagonals board and twelve each of black and white counters are required for play.
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