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# 9mm
Introducing:
Nine Mens Morris
The Game
A game about moving cows
Featuring:
Fennel
The Language
By:
dozens
the human
## ABOUT
Do you know what Nine Mens Morris looks like?
It has three concentric rings, each containing eight spaces.
Here's what it looks like:
```
1-----2-----3
| | |
| 4---5---6 |
| | | | |
| | 7-8-9 | |
| | | | | |
0-1-2 3-4-5 +10
| | | | | |
| | 6-7-8 | |
| | | | |
| 9---0---1 | +20
| | |
2-----3-----4
```
## BACKGROUND
9mm is legit a great game.
One time i wrote an essay about the social contract implicit to nine mens morris:
https://write.tildeverse.org/dozens/nine-mens-morris-cultural-meanings-and-social-contracts
Kind of obsessed with this variation about COWS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morabaraba
also look at these round cows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow