by Various or Unknown Manufacturers
The Mill game board
One of a stack of low-budget board-type games. The basic story is here: Vintage Games and Playing Pieces. There’s a list of the games below.
For the TWO PLAYER game, The Mill, each player requires 9 men of his chosen color. Take 9 red chess pawns, and 9 yellow ones. (It’s likely red and yellow pawns came with the original set. You could substitute them for the more conventional black and white chess pawns.) The object of the game is to reduce the opponent’s number of men to 2. (Obviously,) the first player who does this is the winner.
Each player starts with 9 men, and these he puts on the board one at a time, placing them upon the circles at the junction of the lines. In doing so, he endeavors as far as possible to place 3 in a line; every time he is successful, he can “pound” any one of his opponent’s men, that is, he removes it from the board.
After the first player has placed his man, his opponent places a man also, and thus the game continues until all the 18 men are on the board. Men can then be moved to adjoining positions along any of the lines available to them, but in no case can a man be moved farther than one stage along a line until only 3 men remain to that player; at that point, the player goes on moving his remaining men as before, but he can move them to any point of the board that is vacant. (Wait…what?)
If your opponent has already got 3 men in line, when you have just been successful of placing 3 of your own in line, you cannot “pound” one of his 3 unless he has no other man available for you to take.
All righty, then. If you can understand that, you might make a game of this. It would be possible to draw your own board if you lose this one. The design is relatively simple and memorable.
More exciting Lame Games:
Air Speedway
Around The World
Basketball
Bean Pot, The
Cross Country
Cross Over
East Side West Side
Get Your Goat
Gingerbread Man, The
Hockey
Hop Over Two
Horse Race
Huff and Puff
Jack ‘O Lantern
Mill, The
Mother Goose
Mousetrap
Peter Rabbit
Playground, The
Play Watch, The
Safety First
Stake Your Claims
Three Little Kittens, The
Tick-Tack-Toe
