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You cannot remove morrells that are currently part of a mill, but other than Making Mills: When you get three of your morrells in a row, you can take one of your Try to block your opponent from getting three in a row as well because that is how players can remove Three morrells in a row while placing them on the board, but your opponent will try to block you. Some strategy is involved in the placing because each of you willīe trying to get three of your morrells in a row, which known as a mill. Morrell, and there will be some spaces empty. The board at the points marked by the dots until you run out of morrells. Take turns placing your morrells, one at a time, on Placing Pieces: Start with the board completely empty. The basic design of the board looks like this: The rules come from Medieval Celebrations by Daniel Diehl and Mark Donnelly (pp. Sets of 9 pieces (each a different color or design so you can tell them apart, I used circles cut from colored Object: To eliminate the morrells of your opponent until he or she has only two left.Įquipment: Nine Men's Morris board ( printable) and two Nine Men's Morris is still played by people today.

Sometimes, the game was even played outside on a large board with real peopleįor playing pieces (Cosman 55-56). There were nine of them for each player and the pieces for each side were different enough in shape or colorįor the players to tell them apart. (pieces carved from wood or ivory, ordinary stones, etc.) as long as The game pieces ("morrells") could be anything Game board or draw the diagram of the board in the dirt. It could be played almost anywhere as long as there was somewhere to place a ready-made Another name for this game is Merrills (Diehl and Donnelly 70).