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Kōrero: Cards, board games and puzzles

Mengamenga board

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Mengamenga board

The deceptively complex traditional Māori game of mengamenga is played on a board with squares of four different colours. Each player places pieces (in this case coloured stones) according to strategies that enable them to remove their opponent's pieces.

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Mark Derby, Cards, board games and puzzles – Māori use of games, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/diagram/38884/mengamenga-board (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 14 November 2012.