Left: illustration of a Nine Men's Morris board, made up of three concentric squares with circles on each corner and in the centre of each line. Right: Annotated photos of the stone wall of a prison cell, engraved with a similar shape.
Any ancient game recommendations the #GameandPuzzleWeek? 🎲
Someone in the Early Modern prison of Noto Antica, Sicily clearly loved the classics, carving a gameboard for Nine Men's Morris onto their cell wall!
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