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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Tsoro ?
Message-ID: <3668@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 16:22:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 16:22:15 1985
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Reply-To: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <10200002@unido.UUCP> hmm@unido.UUCP writes:
>A very similar game is well-known in Germany under the name "Muehle" (mill).
>However, the rules are a little bit different.  I hope you don't mind if I
>post them completely.
... description of game play deleted...
>
>
>	Hope you enjoy the game,
>	Hans-Martin Mosner 
>	Universitaet Dortmund, West Germany


The game in question is known in English as "Nine Men's Morris (or morra)."
I learned it as a child.  We had a very pretty carved wooden board which
came from Denmark.  The game itself is very old, at least dating back to
medieval times.
-- 
Elizabeth Hanes Perry                        
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