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Nine Men's Morris Through Time
People have played this game for four thousand years. We restored it seven times over, era by era, and taught it to sit quietly in your pocket.
Era 1 of 7: Stone Age A real game, playing itself
Seven eras, one board
Nine Men's Morris is older than chess. Boards are cut into the roofing slabs of an Egyptian temple and carved into the cloister seats of English cathedrals, and the rules have barely moved in all that time. The app carries the game through seven eras, each with its own board, its own pair of piece sets, and its own opponents. A short, true history of the game is included, so you know whose footsteps you are playing in.
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Stone AgeA slab carved in cave rock, lit by a torch.
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Ancient EgyptSandstone carved with gods and hieroglyphs.
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Roman EmpireWhite marble inlaid in black, by lamplight.
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Ancient ChinaCarved wood among ink stones and jade.
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Ancient JapanA temple board of samurai and cranes.
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Pirate EraA ship's table strewn with doubloons.
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Ultra ModernA circuit board lit in neon.
Four modes, one rulebook
- Career
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Start in the Stone Age and earn your way to Ultra Modern. Each era brings its own opponent, from Queen Nefertiti to Julius Caesar and Sun Tzu, each with their own habits at the board.
- Quick play
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Pick an era, pick an opponent, play. No ceremony.
- Time challenge
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The same rules against a running clock, for people who think faster than they should.
- Local two player
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Pass the device across the table. The oldest multiplayer there is.
What is in the box
- Boards
- Seven, one per era, each drawn for its period.
- Pieces
- Fourteen themed sets, two for every era, from wooden pucks to plasma cores.
- Opponents
- Computer opponents at four levels, from a patient teacher to a punishing tactician.
- History
- A concise, sourced history of Nine Men's Morris, inside the app.
- Connection
- None needed. The game plays offline, on a train, on a plane, up a mountain.
Three rules, learnt in a minute
- 1. Place
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You and your opponent take turns putting nine pieces each on the board's twenty-four points.
- 2. Mill
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Line up three of your pieces along a marked line and you have a mill. Every mill lets you remove one enemy piece.
- 3. Move
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Once placed, pieces slide between neighbouring points. Reduce your opponent to two pieces, or block every move they have, and the board is yours.
Pay once, own it
The game is free to download and play. A single purchase of £3.99 unlocks every era, once, forever. There is nothing else to buy and nothing on a meter.
It collects no personal data. No account, no analytics, no adverts. Payment is handled by Apple or Google, and RevenueCat confirms purchases anonymously so restore works across your devices. The privacy policy is short enough to actually read.
