What is Mills Mess?
Mills Mess is a juggling pattern named after its inventor, Steve Mills. The approved spelling does not contain an apostrophe! It is almost certainly the best known of the harder patterns with 3 objects. It can also be done with more than three things (balls usually) – 4 balls Mills Mess is not uncommon, and some people can do 5. I have never heard of more. The pattern was invented around 1973. For more information and a description of the trick, see the JIS Mills Mess help pages. Steve’s brother, Rich Mills, is on the juggling network. Mills Mess cannot be notated with site-swap notation, or I’d happily do so.
