Nine Men's Morris
You Will Need:
The nine men's morris game board
9 counters of one colour and 9 of another colour
How To Start:
A game for 2 players or 2 teams.
Decide who will start, then take turns to place one counter at a time on one of the 24 dots on the board.
If you get a horizontal or vertical line of 3, this is called a 'mill'.
You can take away one of your opposing teams counters if you get a mill.
Keep playing until all your 9 counters are gone (so now all 9 counters from both sides are on the board)
How To Play:
Now you can take turns to move your counters along the lines one space.
If you make a mill continue to remove counters that are not in a mill.
(You can move in and out of mills)
The Game Ends When:
You or your opponents have 2 counters left and you cannot make any more mills.
We hope you enjoy playing this game - We are sending the boards and counters to you next week.
The nine men's morris game board
9 counters of one colour and 9 of another colour
How To Start:
A game for 2 players or 2 teams.
Decide who will start, then take turns to place one counter at a time on one of the 24 dots on the board.
If you get a horizontal or vertical line of 3, this is called a 'mill'.
You can take away one of your opposing teams counters if you get a mill.
Keep playing until all your 9 counters are gone (so now all 9 counters from both sides are on the board)
How To Play:
Now you can take turns to move your counters along the lines one space.
If you make a mill continue to remove counters that are not in a mill.
(You can move in and out of mills)
The Game Ends When:
You or your opponents have 2 counters left and you cannot make any more mills.
We hope you enjoy playing this game - We are sending the boards and counters to you next week.
2 comments:
Hi! In Finland we call this game: Myllymatti. This is a popular old game also in FIN. :-))
Yes, our children have found it interesting that none of the games so far have been completely new to them. Some parts my be slightly different but it seems childrens' games are the same all over the world - they just have different names. The card game played in Spain is just like our card game 'sevens' but we use a different pack. It's nice for our children to see that peers in other countries are not so different :o)
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