Play Nine Men's Morris online

🎯 Goal: Take so many of your opponent's stones that only two are left – or hem them in so they cannot move any more.

⚪ Placing: Each of you has nine stones. Take turns placing one on a free point until all 18 are on the board. Light starts.

↔️ Moving and flying: Then you move one of your stones along the lines to a free neighbouring point. With only three stones left, you may fly to any free point.

⊞ Mill: Three of your stones on one line make a mill: you take one of your opponent's stones – only one, even when you close two mills at once. Stones in a mill are safe unless all of them stand in mills.

🏆 Winner: Whoever is down to two stones or cannot make a move loses. You can resign at any time.

🤝 Draw: If the same position occurs for the third time with the same player to move, the game is a draw. You can also agree on a draw. Fifty moves by each side without a closed mill (after the setting phase) are a draw as well.

⚙ Variants: The host can set two variants (default: standard rules). "Flying with three pieces" off: even with only three pieces you move along the lines only. "Double mill takes two pieces": whoever closes two mills with one move takes two of the opponent's pieces.