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Nine Men's Morris - An easy to learn and rather fun ancient board game popular in the Roman Empire and Medieval Europe (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

We also call it mill in our language. I also used to play it a lot with my grandma. Corns vs beans.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oooo, this is harder than it looks.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

Wdym medieval? This is still in every german "spielesammlung" I played this a lot as a kid

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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?????)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

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).

[–] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, I just used an Ai on a website to win these for me