Nine Men's Morris

-1400
(Uncredited)
BGG Geek Rating
5.4
based on 1,853 ratings
BGG Average Rating
5.4
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BGG Ranking
#29224
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Players
2-2
Weight
1.77/5.00
Playtime
20 min
Age
6+
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⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

Pattern Building Point to Point Movement

📂 Categories

Abstract Strategy

🎨 Artists

Dieter Zander Kanare Kato Mariela Arratia

🏢 Publishers

ABRA Adrenaline Brush Ltd Auf/Zu Bibelot Games Blatz Bohemia Brimtoy Carlit Chad Valley Co Ltd. Channel Craft Chase Games Inc. Clark & Sowdon Climax Print. Cloud Home Craft Creative Crafthouse Dean Designed Dilemma Games Dourios Educa Borras F.X. Schmid Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore) Galt Toys Gamma Two Games Geoludie Gerhards Spiel und Design Great American Trading Company Green Board Game Co. HABA Handfaste Hanje Spiele-Atelier Hausser Hemsby's Hexagames (I) Historische Spiele Zander HistoryGames.it House of Marbles Ilex K.E.Leg Kadon Enterprises Kanare_Abstract Kili-Marjan Kuttula Klee Krealudik L. P. Septímio LuduScience MacGregor Historic Games Marx Toys Masters Games Merit Michael Stanfield Milton Bradley Mitra Noris Spiele Oficina do Aprendiz Old Time Games Otto Maier Verlag Pacific Game Company Paddock Game Company Papita Parker Brothers Pelikan Peri Spiele Philos Piatnik Pin International Planet Finska Professor Puzzle Games (Public Domain) Rapidoats Ravensburger Regionalia Verlag GmbH Robertsons Rogue Publishing Schaper Schmidt Spiele Selecta Spielzeug (Self-Published) Siso Trend Spear's Games Square Root Games Stancraft Products Super Accord The Bombay Company U3 University Games W.G. Young & Co. White Horse Whittlecraft Wood Expressions Zulu Maraba Toy Co.

📖 About This Game

Nine Men's Morris is a very old game that has been played for thousands of years all over the world. It was most popular about five hundred years ago and was played by Monks in churches as well as on village greens throughout England. The game is for two players. One player has nine black playing pieces, the other has nine white playing pieces. The first player to reduce their opponent to two pieces wins. In the first stage of the game players take turns placing their pieces on the board, attempting to make a line of three. Once all the pieces have been placed, players may slide them, still attempting to make a line of three. Whenever a player makes a line of three, they remove an opponent's piece of his choice. When one player has only three pieces left, he is allowed to move any piece from any point on the board to any other point in order to more effectively block the winning opponent and to make a line of three. As soon as one player is left with only two pieces, his opponent wins.