Opponent ladder
Numbered opponents with increasing strength, saved locally as you beat each one.
Traditional Southern African board game
Morabaraba: form a mill, capture a piece, out-think the AI.
Place and move pieces to form mills, capture your opponent, and climb a ladder of increasingly tough AI opponents.
- Play style
- AI difficulty ladder
- Best for
- Turn-based strategy sessions
- Where to play
- Mobile or desktop
How to play
Start with the visible goal, make your move, and build on the result.
01
Choose an opponent from the difficulty ladder, then place your 12 pieces on the 24-point board, alternating turns.
02
Form a mill — three of your pieces in a line — to capture an opponent piece.
03
Once all pieces are placed, slide to an adjacent empty point (or fly to any empty point once down to 3 pieces) to keep forming mills. Reduce your opponent below 3 pieces, or leave them with no legal move, to win.
What to expect
Climb a ladder of opponents with real capture tactics.
Morabaraba is a full placement-and-movement mill game, not a simplified template, played against a heuristic AI that gets tougher as you climb the ladder.
Full mill rules
Placement phase, movement phase, flying with three pieces, and chained mill captures.
Traditional roots
A real implementation of the Southern African mill-capture tradition, not a generic board reskin.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Morabaraba?
Morabaraba is a traditional Southern African strategy board game in the Nine Men’s Morris / mill-capture family, played with 12 pieces per side on a 24-point board.
How do I capture a piece in Morabaraba?
Form a mill — three of your own pieces in a straight line on the board — to capture one of your opponent’s pieces.
How do I win?
Reduce your opponent to fewer than 3 live pieces, or leave them with no legal move on their turn.
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