Form a mill with your nine pieces and take theirs away.
First place your nine pieces, then slide them along the lines. Line up three and you form a mill — remove one enemy piece. Cut your opponent down to two and you win.
A board is scratched into the roof slabs of the temple at Kurna in Egypt, making this some 3,000 years old. It was hugely popular in medieval Europe and appears in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Tic-tac-toe is a relative.
Build a windmill. Arrange a mill you can open and close every turn and you strip a piece each time. During placement, grab the intersections that lead in four directions first.
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