"From Color to Color": Another Table Topper to Play With

A quilt to put on your table just for decoration, but you can use ist also as a board game.

This thin quilt consists of three layers, is 46 x 46 cm, or 18,11" x 18,11",

had been sewn and quilted by hand.

These are the rules:

"From Color to Color"

A game for 2 or 4 players. Each player has 9 or 8 playing pieces in one color, depending on whether you play from corner to corner (9) or from side to side (8).

Goal: Bring all your pieces from the colorfield where you start to the opposite colorfield. The winner is the person who is first to place all his/her tokens in the opposite colorfield. (Nine-patch-colorfields with nine tokens are Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. Eight-patch-colorfields with eight tokens are Brown, Gray, Lilac, Pink. Red goes to Blue, Green to Yellow and vice versa, Brown to Gray, Lilac to Pink and vice versa.)

Start: Each player chooses a colorfield to start from. If the agreement is to play from corner to corner you put all your 9 tokens on the nine-patch-square in one corner (Blue, Red, Green or Yellow). If you choose to play from side to side, you put your 8 playing pieces on the rectangular eight-patch-colorfield at your chosen side (Gray, Brown, Lilac or Pink).

How to move: Hop over another playing piece or move to a free adjacent colorspot. Move in any direction (right, left, up, down, diagonally).

Allowed: You may hop over several pieces in a row if possible. You may hop over any token (including your own) and move to any colorspot, except:

Forbidden: You may not touch or hop over a colorspot of your opposite color. For example: while you move your pieces from Red to Blue, it is forbidden to land on or to hop over any blue spot. (Only on arrival at the opposite nine-patch-colorfield you may move your pieces over these patches.)

It is also forbidden for all players to touch the four multicolored patches of the square in the center.

Warning: Take care to move away all your nine/ eight tokens from your colorfield where your start just in time. The player coming from the opposite corner /side is allowed to remove any remaining pieces when arriving on such a spot, which means you have lost the game already.

Note: When players go from one side to the opposite side they have fewer pieces to move and a shorter distance to overcome.

They may not touch or hop over the colorspots of the right neighbor of the colorfield where they start.

(Like all players they also may not touch the multicolored patches in the middle-square.)

For example: you move from Gray to Brown with your 8 pieces? Then you may not land on or hop over any yellow patch.

Suggestion: If you wish to play with three players, use the corners only, it does not matter much if noone is coming from the opposite direction for one player, there are enough tokens on the field to play with. If anyone will move from side to side while others are going from corner to corner, the playing conditions are a bit different.

Also: It’s not recommended to play with more than 4 players, it’s getting too crowded then.

PS: If someone makes any interesting/ nice/ not so nice experiences with making such a quilt and with these rules I’d be delighted to hear about that! (MARIASmail@t-online.de)

A "Round Morris"-Quilt

A table-topper with which you can play the game

"Round Morris" or "Three Men's Morris".

It's a handmade patchwork-quilt with three thin cotton layers,

hand-quilted, the eight circles on the curved line are appliquéd, 

dimensions are 48 cm x 48 cm, 19"x19".

Rules for Three Men’s Morris or Round Morris

This is a strategy game with a rich history:

"The earliest known board for the game includes diagonal lines and was "cut into the roofing slabs of the temple at Kurna in Egypt" c. 1400 BCE." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men%27s_Morris

This is a game for two people. Each player has three pieces in one color. The aim is to get your three pieces in a straight line while you must have the central position, since a curved line round the edge does not count. During the game the pieces may not move to any vacant point, but only to any adjacent empty position. Plus: you HAVE to move your piece when it’s your turn, you cannot miss a turn.

First, take it in turns to place your pieces anywhere on the spots (central spot included). When all pieces have been put into the field, the play begins. Since one can only win if the middle of the field is occupied, the player who is first to place his piece can put it in the center and has good chances to win. You can make him remove his piece from the middle, while you are enclosing his pieces with your own ones. Now everybody has again the chance to win.

There is an alternative version in which a piece may move to any vacant point on the field, not just an adjacent one.

Enjoy!