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Mühle

Nine Men's Morris is an abstract board game for two players on a 24-point board. The goal is to form mills of three pieces through placement and movement, capture opposing pieces and reduce the other side to two pieces or no legal move.

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Classification

Category Mind sport
Family Mind Sport
Level Discipline

Weitere Angaben

Tags board-game, strategy, traditional, abstract-game, morris, muhle, mind-sport, nine-mens-morris

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Form mills, capture opposing pieces and reduce the other side to no moves or two pieces.

Teilnehmer

Two players; tournaments may use individual games and rounds.

Teamgröße

Two players; tournaments may use individual games and rounds.

Spielfeld

Morris board or online board with 24 points and nine pieces per player.

Dauer

Duration depends on game, round, heat, speech, dictation or tournament time control.

Wertung

A game ends in win, loss or draw by rule variant; tournaments score points or results per game.

Gewinnbedingung

The game is won when the opponent has only two pieces left or cannot make a legal move.

Ausrüstung

Morris board, nine light/dark pieces each or online platform; optional clock in tournament.

Wichtige Regelpunkte

  • unauthorised aids
  • communication outside the rules
  • time violation
  • wrong or incomplete answer/input

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

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