Nine Men's Morris - Game Rules

Game Rules

The board consists of a grid with twenty-four interesections or points. Each player has nine pieces, or "men", usually coloured black and white. Players try to form 'mills'— three of their own men lined horizontally or vertically—allowing a player to remove an opponent's man from the game. A player wins by reducing the opponent to two pieces, or by leaving him without a legal move.

The game proceeds in three phases:

1. placing men on vacant points
2. moving men to adjacent points
3. (optional phase) moving men to any vacant point when a player has been reduced to three men