Editing Nine men's morris (section)

===Phase 3: "flying"===
When a player is reduced to three pieces, there is no longer a limitation on that player of moving to only adjacent points: The player's men may "fly" (or "hop",<ref name="Mohr"/><ref name="Wood">{{cite book |last=Wood |first=Clement |author2=Gloria Goddard |title=The Complete Book of Games |year=1940 |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Garden City Books]] |location=[[Garden City, New York]] |pages=342–43}}</ref> or "jump"<ref name="Foster">{{cite book |last=Foster |first=R. F. |title=Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games |year=1946 |publisher=[[J. B. Lippincott Company]] |pages=568–69}}</ref>) from any point to any vacant point.

Some rules sources say this is the way the game is played,<ref name="Wood"/><ref name="Foster"/> some treat it as a variation,<ref name="Mohr"/><ref name="Ainslie">{{cite book |last=Ainslie |first=Tom |title=Ainslie's Complete Hoyle |year=2003 |publisher=[[Barnes & Noble#Publishing|Barnes & Noble Books]] |isbn=978-0-7607-4159-7 |pages=404–06}}</ref><ref name="Morehead">{{cite book|last=Morehead|first=Albert H.|author2=Richard L. Frey |author3=Geoffrey Mott-Smith | author-link2=Richard L. Frey | author-link=Albert Morehead | author-link3=Geoffrey Mott-Smith | title=The New Complete Hoyle|url=https://archive.org/details/newcompletehoyle00frey|url-access=registration|year= 1956|publisher=Garden City Books|location=Garden City, New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newcompletehoyle00frey/page/647 647–649]}}</ref><ref name="Grunfeld">{{cite book|last=Grunfeld|first=Frederic V.|title=Games of the World|year=1975|publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt, Rinehart and Winston]]|isbn=978-0-03-015261-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gamesofworldhowt0000unse/page/59 59–61]|url=https://archive.org/details/gamesofworldhowt0000unse/page/59}}</ref> and some do not mention it at all.<ref name="King"/> A 19th-century games manual calls this the "truly rustic mode of playing the game".<ref name="Mohr"/> Flying was introduced to compensate when the weaker side is one man away from losing the game.