
It is only upon the formation of a mill that a piece is captured but a player will often break a mill by moving a piece out of it and then, in a subsequent turn, play the piece back again, thus forming a new mill and capturing another piece.Ĭaptured pieces are never replayed onto the board and remain captured for the remainder of the game. If all the opponents pieces form mills then an exception is made and the player is allowed to remove any piece. After that, play continues alternately but each turn consists of a player moving one piece along a line to an adjacent point.ĭuring both of these phases, whenever a player achieves a mill, that player immediately removes from the board one piece belonging to the opponent that does not form part of a mill. To begin with, players take turns to play a piece of their own colour on any unoccupied point until all eighteen pieces have been played. Player's toss a coin to decide who will play white - white moves first and has a slight advantage as a result. Every time this is achieved, an opponent's piece is removed, the overall objective being to reduce the number of opponent's pieces to less than three or to render the opponent unable to play. The basic aim of Nine Mens Morris is to make "mills" - vertical or horizontal lines of three in a row. Accompanying the board, there should be 9 black pieces and 9 white pieces usually in the form of round counters.

Pieces are played on the corner points and on the points where lines intersect so there are 24 playable points.

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