Nine men’s morris is a strategy board game for two players. It is an ancient game, dating back to at least the Roman Empire.[1] The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl[2] in English. In North America, the game has also been called cowboy checkers, and its board is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards. Nine men’s morris is a solved game, that is, a game whose optimal strategy has already been calculated. It has been shown that with perfect play from both players, the game results in a draw.
In Germany it’s called “Mühle” (mill). Played this a lot with my grandma. It’s a fun strategy game where the starting setup (each player adds a stone each round) is very relevant for the rest of the game
We also call it mill in our language. I also used to play it a lot with my grandma. Corns vs beans.
There’s a really good rendition of the game available in the Debian/Ubuntu and Arch repos simply called Morris (available for Windows there, too), hopefully it’s available on other distros repos as well. Though if not, there’s a bunch of renditions of it available online.
There’s also a more advanced version from Africa called Morabaraba
Oooo, this is harder than it looks.
The app I linked to seems like it may be particularly hard, and according to description even learns from past games. I’ve yet to beat it myself.
Wdym medieval? This is still in every german “spielesammlung” I played this a lot as a kid
I spent literal (not literal) years playing this game in AC4 for the achievement to beat it on the hardest difficulty (why did they give the ai an ELO of 4000???)
I’ve actually begun a playthrough of Black Flag for the first time quite recently, excited to hear that there’s some Morris in it as well! The only other game I ever played Morris in was 1991’s Robin Hood from Sierra (a truly excellent point’n’click, if you’re a fan of that genre).
Yeah, I just used an Ai on a website to win these for me
