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==Related games== * ''[[Achi (game)|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.<ref name="Bell vol. 2">{{cite book|last=Bell|first=R. C.|title=Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, volume 2|year=1979|publisher=[[Dover Publications]]|location=[[New York City]]|isbn=0-486-23855-5<!-- Volumes 1 and 2 are bound in the same book and thus have the same ISBN. -->|pages=55–56}}</ref> * [[Kensington (game)|Kensington]] is a similar game in which two players take turns placing pieces and try to arrange them in certain ways. * ''Luk {{not a typo|ssut}} k'i'' ('six man chess') in [[Guangdong|Canton]], China, also played as ''Tapatan'' in the [[Philippines]], is equivalent to [[three men's morris]] played on a board with diagonals.<ref name="Culin">{{cite journal|last=Culin|first=Stewart|date=October–December 1900|title=Philippine Games|journal=American Anthropologist |series=New Series|volume=2|issue=4|pages=643–656|doi= 10.1525/aa.1900.2.4.02a00040|jstor=659313|doi-access=free}}</ref> * ''[[Morabaraba]]'', almost equivalent to twelve men's morris. However, rather than men, the counters are called "cows". It is played competitively internationally in competitions run by the [[International Wargames Federation]]. * ''[[Shax (board game)|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. * ''[[Fangqi]]'' 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 [[Xinjiang]] and other parts of [[northwest China]]. * [[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 (tied).
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