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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