Playing board for Three Mens Morris game is any surface where players can put their symbols - this is a 3 × 3 grid with nine equal squares. The grid is the easiest to draw by drawing two parallel vertical lines cut by two horizontal lines.
Icons in Three Mens Morris game can either be placed on the playing board or drawn. It does not matter what type of symbols used, it is just that they are different.
Three Mens Morris game has simple rules but there is some variations in them.
Each player has three pieces.
At the beginning of the game the board is empty, and players alternately play placing their pieces on empty positions. Once all pieces are placed (if there is no winner by then) players move one of their pieces per turn.
There are several different combination of rules according to the two aspect:
First; Where pieces can be moved:
1) To any empty position
2) To any adjacent empty position including diagonally
3) To any adjacent empty position excusing diagonally
Second: Where three pieces should be placed to win:
1) Get three in a line including diagonally
2) Get three in a line excluding diagonally
The earliest known board for the Three Mens Morris game has been found cut into the roofing slabs of the temple at Kurna in Egypt 1400 BCE.
The game was played in China during the time of Confucius 500 BCE.
The game was quite popular in England in the XIII century and boards have been also found carved into the cloister seats at the English cathedrals at Canterbury, Gloucester, Norwich, Salisbury and Westminster Abbey.
It is considered that the name of Three Mens Morris game comes from the Latin word merellus, which means a counter or gaming piece.
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