Stuck in a tent

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With a sickly child, do we can’t event at kentwell today. We’ve no board games, and precious few books, so we’re playing Nim. We can use the same cloth scraps to play three men’s morris too.

Tudor games for our tudor time.

Edited to add rules:

Nim: 2 players (though small says you can have more) take it in turns to remove counters from the board. They can take as many as they like from a single row. (we usually say the rows are across). The person who picks up the last counter loses.

Three men’s morris has the board I’ve added a picture of. Two players with three counters each take it in turns to lay their counters down, then move them about the board on the lines, one space at a time until someone manages three in a row.


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Comments

9 responses to “Stuck in a tent”

  1. I want to play. Rules?

    1. Added them 🙂

  2. Oh no, how much longer are you there? Will have a go at this later

    1. Two more days. I’m ready to go home now tbh. It’s been a long couple of weeks, especially with everything that went on in the week or so before we came away.

  3. Now that is thinking on your feet! x

    1. Thank you. It worked pretty well all told.

  4. Our (bought) Nim board only has three rows, with 5, 4 and 3 counters. You can vary it by playing that last player to pick up a counter wins instead of loses too, which means a shift in strategic thinking 😉

  5. Looks like an interesting game. x

    1. It’s surprisingly fun, I recommend it.

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