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