{"id":643,"date":"2020-03-18T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothermath.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:52:12","slug":"three-mens-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/18\/three-mens-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Men&#8217;s Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three men&#8217;s morris is an abstract strategy game played on a three by three board (counting lines) that is similar to tic-tac-toe.<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-645 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/aaaaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rules<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each player has three pieces. The winner is the first player to align their three pieces on a line drawn on the board. There are 3 horizontal lines, 3 vertical lines and 2 diagonal lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The board is empty to begin the game, and players take turns placing their pieces on empty intersections.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once all pieces are placed (assuming there is no winner by then), play proceeds with each player moving one of their pieces per turn.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A piece may move only to any <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adjacent<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> empty position.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is an alternative version in which pieces <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> move to an adjacent position, but to any vacant position that is not adjacent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/19wWsni7a_BLFzXc2i59yeWwTXADHbNk8K2QnHsxgWH4\/copy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is the Google Slides version.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-aSW1MQwEo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men&#8217;s morris is an abstract strategy game played on a three by three board (counting lines) that is similar to tic-tac-toe. Rules &nbsp; Each player has three pieces. The winner is the first player to align their three pieces on a line drawn on the board. There are 3 horizontal lines, 3 vertical lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[64,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}