Nine Men's Morris - Related Games

Related Games

• Achi, from Ghana, is played on a Three Men's Morris board with diagonals. Each player has four pieces, which can only move to adjacent spaces.
• Kensington is a similar game in which two players take turns placing pieces and try to arrange them in certain ways.
• Luk Tsut K'i ("Six Man Chess") in Canton and Tapatan in the Philippines are equivalent to Three Men's Morris played on a board with diagonals.
• Morabaraba, equivalent to Twelve Men's Morris. However, rather than men, the counters are called "cows." It is still played competitively internationally in competitions run by the International Wargames Federation.
• Shax is played on the board of Nine Men's Morris, but with somewhat different rules and with twelve pieces per player instead of nine.
• Square chess is played on a seven-by-seven grid. Players move pieces one point at a time along the grid, attempting to form four-by-four squares and removing one of the opponent's pieces after forming a square. It is played in northwest China and Xinjiang.
• Tic-tac-toe uses a three-by-three board, on which players place pieces (or make marks) in turn until one player wins by forming an orthogonal or diagonal line or until the board is full and the game is drawn.