Liu Tsi is a simple game of alignment played in China during the seventeenth century, but which is likely much older.
Rules
3x3 intersecting lines, with diagonals. Three pieces per player. Players alternate turns placing a piece on an empty spot on the board. Once all of the pieces are placed, the players alternate turns moving a piece to an empty adjacent spot along the lines. The first player to place three pieces in a line wins.
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Sources
Himly, K. 1887. "Anmerkungen in Beziehung aud das Schach- und andere Brettepiele." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 41(3): 461-484.
Hyde, T. 1694. De Ludis Orientalibus Libri Duo: Historia Nerdiludii, hoc est Dicere, Trunculorum, cum quibuidam aliis Arabum, Persarum, Indorum, Chinensium, & aliarum Gentium Ludis tam Politicis quam Bellicis, plerumque Europae inauditis, multo minus visis: additis omnium Nominibus in dictarum Gentium Linguis. Ubi etiam Classicorum Graecorum & Latinorum loca quaedam melius quam hactenus factum est explicantur. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano.
Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
