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A grandfather in a cardigan throws up his hands in mock despair across a kitchen table while his granddaughter laughs, her hand on the last peg of a mill on a wooden Mühle board
  • Mühle
  • Merels
  • Mills
  • Malom
  • Nine Men's Morris

Three in a row. Mind the mill.

The board your grandfather carved, with someone on the line. Nine Men's Morris on one live call: you hear the groan when the mill closes. Free in your browser, nothing to install.

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Whatever the family calls it, they all say the same thing at the end: "just one more."

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Nine men each. A robot across the table.

This is the real MorrisTalk board, and the robot is the real one too. Put your men down, one a turn, on the points where the lines meet. Three in a line is a mill, and a mill takes a man. Once all are down, slide them along the lines.

Mill-ed by a robot? Imagine your Opa.

Now beat a human
Friends in a pub snug round a wooden morris board: one points in triumph, one covers his eyes laughing, a woman leans in delighted MorrisTalk: a game on a live call, with the room ringing
Live voice, every game

The snug, from wherever you are.

Every game is a live call. You hear the groan, they hear your laugh, and the whole pub is one tap away.

A young woman on a tram laughing out loud at her phone on a call MorrisTalk: a chat with an offer to play Morris
One link, one opponent

Send the link. They're at the board.

Paste it in the chat. They tap, sign in with one tap, and sit down across from you. Mid-commute works. So does mid-lunch.

A Hungarian family round the table after Sunday lunch: a grandmother points at the malom board in protest, a father grips his head, a boy stands on his chair with his arms up, a teenager laughs MorrisTalk: the Sunday group chat fixing tonight's game
The Sunday table

Every family has its house rule.

The aunt who "knows the real way", the cousin who flies with his last three men, the child who has never lost. Same board, any distance, everyone talking at once.

Two friends in a lakeside cabin playing morris by the window: one holds up a captured peg with a sly smile, the other stares at the board in disbelief MorrisTalk: your people, who is in a game right now, and your chats
The whole family of games

Nine Men's, Six Men's, Twelve Men's.

Whichever board you learned on, it is one tap away. See who is mid-game, and tap a name to start the next one.

One game, a great many names.

Scratched on cloister steps and carved into pub tables for centuries. Whatever you call it, the board is the same.

  • MühleGermany, Austria
  • MerelsEngland
  • MillsEverywhere
  • MalomHungary
  • MlinThe Balkans
  • MølleDenmark, Norway
  • KvarnSweden
  • MolenThe Netherlands

Things said during MorrisTalk

"Mühle!"Said slowly, on purpose
"Wait, that one was in a mill."By whoever didn't see it
"He's flying. Opa is flying."With his last three men
"I let you have that one."Famous last words

Questions people ask between games

Is MorrisTalk free?

Yes. MorrisTalk is free to play, and a table with your friends is always free. Where they're on offer, play coins open the bigger tables, and bragging rights are all they're good for.

Do I need to download anything?

No. MorrisTalk plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Open it, sign in with Google, and you're at the board. On Android you can also play someone nearby with no internet at all.

Can we talk while we play?

Every game is a live voice call. You and your opponent hear each other the moment it happens, and there's chat too, for the one who refuses to unmute.

Can I play a friend online?

Yes. Send your link in the group chat. They tap it, sign in with one tap, and take the other side of your board. No friend around yet? A robot can sit across from you until they arrive.

Which versions can I play?

Three. Nine Men's Morris is the classic: nine men each on three squares joined by lines, placed one a turn and then slid along the lines, and a player down to three men may fly. Six Men's Morris is the smaller board of two squares, six men each and no flying. Twelve Men's Morris adds diagonal lines and twelve men each. In all of them three in a line is a mill and takes an enemy man; a player left with two men, or with no move, loses.

Is it safe for teens?

Players aged 13 to 17 only ever play other teens, never adults. Under 13s can't sign up.

Close the mill.

Somebody in your family has been waiting years to say "Mühle!" Don't let them.

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