Academics
MillSong
Full-depth Nine Men's Morris (mill / morabaraba) for tweens — place your nine men, line up three to form a MILL and capture, then swing your mills to grind the board down. Play the real 24-point board against a graded computer or a friend.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Elder Merel
#2f7d78 Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
Miller Mila
The mill: lining up three stones on a line
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Snatch Nadia
Capture-on-mill: removing a piece the moment a mill closes
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Guard Gwen
The not-in-a-mill rule: a stone inside a mill is safe
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Block Bodhi
Blocking: dropping onto the empty point of an almost-mill
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Spoke Sami
Prime points: the strong spoke midpoints (three mill lines each)
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Corner Cato
Corner points: the low-value corners (two mill lines each)
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Placer Pell
The placement phase: building a mill network with the nine
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Slide Sile
The movement phase: sliding a stone to an adjacent point
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Swing Sena
The swinging (running) mill: opening and re-closing to capture again
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Flyer Faye
The flying phase: hopping anywhere once down to three men
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Reduce Remy
The endgame: winning by reducing the opponent to two
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Elder Merel
The mills-puzzle elder (mentor): find-the-mill / which-to-take puzzles
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What's inside
Learning goal
Full-depth Nine Men's Morris (mill / morabaraba) for tweens — place your nine men, line up three to form a MILL and capture, then swing your mills to grind the board down. Play the real 24-point board against a graded computer or a friend.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Elder Merel — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How MillSong handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
MillSong runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
MillSong is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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