Mill

FAQs

• How do you play the mill game?
• How do you win mill?
  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 (where they could no longer form mills and thus be unable to win), or by leaving them without a legal move.
• How many pieces do you start with in Mill?
  To begin with, players take turns to play a piece of their own colour on any unoccupied point until all eighteen pieces have been played. After that, play continues alternately but each turn consists of a player moving one piece along a line to an adjacent point.
• Can you move diagonally in Mill?
  You can make a mill by placing three pieces of your own color in a row along a vertical or horizontal straight line (three pieces along a diagonal line does not count as a mill).