Chip Carving - Peg Morrel & Instructions
Chip Carving Instructions
Peg Morrel - Board & Instructions
CHIP CARVING PEG MORREL
Peg morrel (nine men's morris, shepherd's mill) is a fine game for two players. The moves are interesting, and victory or defeat may come quickly.
The holes in this board are so placed that the game of fox and geese may be made on the reverse side of the board.
The pegs should have ends so shaped and well sandpapered that they can readily be inserted into or removed from the holes.
A skillful carver would carve the two inner borders on a layout consisting only of the rows of flat (uncut) triangles along their edges. Careful stabbing would finish the design.
DIRECTIONS FOR PLAYING*
First one player then the other places a peg in a hole, each striving to get a "mill" (three pegs in a row but not cornerwise) and also to prevent his opponent from getting a mill.
A mill entitles its owner to remove one opponent's peg, but not from any mill he may have.
After all pegs have been placed, they are moved, without jumping, along the lines, one hole at a move.
When a player has only three pegs left, he can jump anywhere; when he has only two, he has lost the game.
*Manual Training Magazine, Dec. 1918, page 134.