Morrice, NINE

MEN'S MORRIS, or NINE MEN'S MERELS. This game is a close relation of Tit-tat-toe. It is played played upon a board laid out as in annexed diagram. The object of each player is to get three men in a row; succeeding in this, he is entitled to take off one of his enemy's men. The two players Morrice Board. Black on his fifth move has secured a row of three and is privileged to take off a white man. them one space at a time. The game continues until one or the other shall have lost all but two men.