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Traditional Games: Morris

Twelve Men's Morris

Twelve Men's Morris

boardgame

Twelve Men's Morris is a traditional board game with twelve pieces per player. Played in three phases, players place, move, and capture pieces by forming rows of three. The goal is to reduce the opponent to two pieces or block all their legal moves.

Players:
2
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
8
Seven Men's Morris

Seven Men's Morris

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
–
Min. Age:
8
Three Way Cube

Three Way Cube

boardgame

Three Way Cube is a three-dimensional tactical game. Two players take turns placing beads across three levels to form vertical, horizontal, or diagonal rows. Closing a mill lets a player capture an opponent's bead. The goal is to capture all opponent beads or completely block their remaining moves.

Players:
2
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
8
Pentagonia

Pentagonia

boardgame

Pentagonia is a tactical two-player board game played on a five-sided board based on Nine Men's Morris. Players place and slide pieces to capture opponents by forming alignments. Victory depends entirely on pure strategy and pattern recognition.

Players:
2
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
0
Six Men's Morris

Six Men's Morris

boardgame

Six Men's Morris plays similarly to Nine Men's Morris, but uses a modified board without the outer set of lines and reduces the number of game pieces to six for each player.

Players:
2
Time:
–
Min. Age:
8
Shax

Shax

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
6
Mit Ach und Krach gibt's doch ein Dach

Mit Ach und Krach gibt's doch ein Dach

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
–
Min. Age:
0
Three Men's Morris

Three Men's Morris

boardgame

This ancient 3x3 grid game is an ancestor of Nine Men's Morris and Tic-Tac-Toe. Players alternate placing and moving three pieces to form a line. Simple and complex variants exist, differing in whether diagonal moves are allowed.

Players:
2
Time:
5 min
Min. Age:
5
Archimedes

Archimedes

boardgame

Players:
1–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
0
Politics

Politics

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
–
Min. Age:
0
Afrikanische Mühle

Afrikanische Mühle

boardgame

This compact mini leather game by HiKu is an African variant of Nine Men's Morris. It comes in a small 7 by 7 cm wooden box and includes a practical leather game board for convenient travel and play.

Players:
2
Time:
–
Min. Age:
6
NAVKAKRI: Ancient game meets Tech

NAVKAKRI: Ancient game meets Tech

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
5–60 min
Min. Age:
5
Mozog

Mozog

boardgame

This abstract board game is a Nine Men's Morris variant. The patent outlines a game board featuring multiple interlocking square geometric configurations. Solid and dashed lines dictate the movement of the pieces.

Players:
2
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
8
Bolotudu

Bolotudu

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
15 min
Min. Age:
7
Renards et Poulets

Renards et Poulets

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
10
Dug Outs and Trenches

Dug Outs and Trenches

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
30–60 min
Min. Age:
8
Quarto

Quarto

boardgame

Quarto features a placement and a movement phase with twelve pieces per player. Players alternate placing and moving pieces to form specific square patterns (quadrates) to capture opponent pieces. Reducing a player to three pieces results in a loss, while triple repetition of a position is a draw.

Players:
2
Time:
10 min
Min. Age:
8
Madelinette

Madelinette

boardgame

Madelinette is a simple two-player blockade board game, likely invented by J. & J. Loader. On a board with seven points and three pieces each, players try to block their opponent's pieces so they cannot move.

Players:
2
Time:
10 min
Min. Age:
10
Dara

Dara

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
60 min
Min. Age:
0
Christmas cracker cannon game

Christmas cracker cannon game

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
5–10 min
Min. Age:
6
Tri-Umph

Tri-Umph

boardgame

This traditional board game resembles Nine Men's Morris, using a 5x6 grid and 12 pieces. After strategic placement, players move orthogonally to form three-piece alignments, removing opposing pieces. The goal is to reduce the opponent to two pieces or block all their moves.

Players:
2
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
0
King

King

boardgame

King combines tic-tac-toe with the chess king's move. The objective is to align your three pieces on a 3x3 grid. Players alternate placing all pieces first, then take turns moving them step by step until one player gets three in a row.

Players:
2
Time:
10 min
Min. Age:
10
Nine Men's Morris

Nine Men's Morris

boardgame

Nine Men's Morris is an ancient board game for two players with nine pieces each. Players form lines of three to capture opponent pieces. The first player to reduce their opponent down to only two pieces wins the game immediately.

Players:
2
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
6
3 & 4: The Game

3 & 4: The Game

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
10–30 min
Min. Age:
6