[029] Making Games Every Day for a Month, Day 17 of 31: Nine Man's Morris

"We believe that while our society is in a transitional stage between the destruction of an old order and the introduction of a new order, the creators of beauty must turn their work into clear ideological propaganda for the people, and make art, which at present is mere individualist masturbation, something of beauty, education and purpose for everyone." - Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters and Sculptors (1922)

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Today I taught a make-your-own sewing kit class with Anna Sharratt at North House Folk School . It was a massive success, I fear.

Tomorrow, Anna and I are teaching a second class: Nine Man's Morris . This game is of a similar vintage to Three Man's Morris, but is engagingly complex to a higher degree.

Tonight, I'm preparing the game boards. The game boards will also be small bags that will hold the game pieces!

It's very fun to bring games like this back into cultural awareness. This is especially rewarding when working with kids, because they aren't concerned with the archaeological nature of this fossil-game. They know it's fun and that's what matters.

Tomorrow we'll sew and decorate these boards, carve some pieces, and collect some lake stones to use for the game.

Anyone can make a Nine Man's Morris board, and anyone can learn to play.

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"WE LIVE in a new era, of unforeseen poetic intensity." - Yellow Manifesto (1928)