MÜHLE¹º is a classic strategy board game that has been played for more than two thousand years - the classic Nine Men's Morris game.
It's possible to play against the strongest computerplayer of all nine men's morris versions in the whole AppStore or against other players connected via network - even 3G, EDGE or WiFi-connections.

Player versus iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad
Before the game starts the skill of the computer player must be choosen. The six available skills are seperated into the two classes “Newbies” and “Masters”. Just shake the device to toggle the class during choosing the appropriate computer skill.
This skills are available listed by the computer player strength:

Class "Newbiews"
Weak (for first-time players!), Light and Easy

Class "Masters"
Harder, Xtreme and Insane (for true masters!)

After the skill has been choosen the player color must be selected - white or black. The player with the white starts the game.


Player versus Remote
In the game lobby all available players are visible. By entering the lobby you will be visible by yourself for all other players in the game lobby and you can be invited by them to a match.
Just tap the name of a player to invite him to a match. All results are collected in the global highscore-table und allow a comparison with other players.The results are calculated in the m-ELO method which is an variation of the well known ELO rating system used in chess.

Player versus Human
This modes allows it to use the device similar to a classic nine men’s morris board. Two player are playing on one device by passing it after each turn.

Rules

Placing phase:
Each game starts with an empty board and the players take turns in playing the tokens on an unused and valid position on the board. Valid positions are at the corners and at the intersections between the lines on the board. To place a token, simply tap the position on the board.

The remaining tokens left to place are shown at the top of the board (black tokens) and at  the bottom of the board (white tokens).

Moving phase:
Once each of the players has placed all nine tokens on the board, they take turns in moving one of their tokens to an open adjacent position along a line, tap a token to select it and the valid positions you may move to are highlighted with a blue glowing dot. Then tap one of the highlighted positions to move the selected token to it.
Any token that is not supposed to be moved or unable to be moved (eg because all adjacent positions are occupied around the token) will wiggle its wings to indicate it.

Forming a mill:
During the placing phase of the moving phase, whenever a player forms a row of three connected pieces along one of the lines on the board (a mill), they may permanently remove one of the opponent’s token from the board.

Opponent tokens that are in mills too may only be removed if there are no other opponent tokens to remove.
To  remove an opponent’s token from the board after forming a mill, simply tap the token. The available tokens that are allowed to be removed are rotating their wings to indicate that they are available. Tokens that can not be removed will wiggle its wings when you tap on them.

Flying Phase:
When a player is reduced to three tokens they are allowed to move their tokens to any open position on the board, not just to adjacent positions. This is called ‘flying’.

Ending the game:
To win the game you must prevent your opponent from playing by blocking off all their moves, or you must reduce them to two tokens.
The game ends in a draw if the same board position is repeated three times or fifty moves are played without either player forming a mill.

Strategy:
At the beginning of the game, it is more important to place pieces in versatile locations rather than to try to form mills immediately and make the mistake of concentrating one's pieces in one area of the board.

An ideal position, which typically results in a win, is to be able to shuttle one piece back and forth between two mills, removing a piece every turn. For example, in the diagram above, white can win the game even if black moves first.

iPhone-Version