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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
+