Game Rules
The board consists of a grid with twenty-four interesections or points. Each player has nine pieces, or "men", usually coloured black and white. Players try to form 'mills'— three of their own men lined horizontally or vertically—allowing a player to remove an opponent's man from the game. A player wins by reducing the opponent to two pieces, or by leaving him without a legal move.
The game proceeds in three phases:
- placing men on vacant points
- moving men to adjacent points
- (optional phase) moving men to any vacant point when a player has been reduced to three men
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