Morabaraba is a traditional two-player strategy board game played in South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho.
 The game is also known as Mlabalaba, Mmela (in Setswana), Muravava, Umlabalaba.
 The game is similar to Twelve Men's Morris, a variation on the Roman board game Nine Men's Morris.
Word board games are those games played on a board as players of the game attempt to construct words that use a scoring system.
 The player with the highest score wins the game.
 Many if not most board games are also available as software programs and online.
 Online word board games can be organized so that the player is playing against other people or the game can be played against an automated program acting as an artificial intelligence.
 Players of some word board games organize themselves into associations, clubs, and tournaments.
Axis & Allies is a series of World War II strategy board games. Originally designed by Larry Harris and published by Nova Game Designs in 1981, the game was republished by the Milton Bradley Company in 1984 as part of the "Gamemaster Series" of board games.
 This edition has been retroactively named Axis & Allies: Classic to differentiate it from later revisions.
 In 1996, "Axis & Allies: Classic" was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design "Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame".
 "Games" magazine also has inducted "Axis & Allies" into their buyers' guide Hall of Fame, an honor the magazine extends to "games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years; i.e., classics."
Blue and Gray is an strategy board game for two players invented by Henry Busch and Arthur Jaeger in 1903.
 They obtained a patent for the game, but may never have published it.
 Blue and Gray was featured in the book "A Gamut of Games" (1969) by Sid Sackson.
 It was also featured in "The Book of Classic Board Games" (1991) by Klutz Press under the name Cats and Dogs.
 In this book, the game was ranked among the top 15 board games of all time, including checkers, backgammon, Go, and mancala.
 The game is also known as Wild West, Thumps Game, and Captain and Soldiers.
 The name Blue and Gray "refers to the uniforms of the South and the North in the Civil War and in the original game the playing pieces of the contestants were of those colors."
Kensington is an abstract strategy board game devised by Brian Taylor and Peter Forbes in 1979, named after London's Kensington Gardens, which contains the mosaic upon which the gameboard is patterned.
 It is played on a geometrical board based on the rhombitrihexagonal tiling pattern.
 The objective of the game is to capture a hexagon by occupying the six surrounding vertices.
 The game maintains an elegant simplicity while still allowing for astonishingly complex strategy.
 The placing and movement of tokens have been compared to Nine Men's Morris.
The record of the nine was a term used in hurling to refer to the nine men who held the record between 1944 and 2009 for winning four consecutive All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners' medals.
 This occurred between 1941 and 1944 when Cork won the championship title every year.
 Only nine men played in all four finals, hence the record of the nine.
 These men were Din Joe Buckley, Alan Lotty, Jack Lynch, Willie Murphy, Paddy O'Donovan, Johnny Quirke, Christy Ring, Batt Thornhill and Dr. Jim Young.
Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning "jump") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, a US thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School.
 His inspiration was the English game "Hoppity" which was devised in 1854.
Tsoro is an ancient two-player mathematical strategy board game that has been played for over a thousand years.
 It has its roots in Zimbabwe and was first described in literature by J. B. Matthews in 1964.
 Tsoro belongs to the same class of African strategy board games collectively called Mancala, such as Oware, Bao, and Kalah.
Bear games is a category of board games of which many have historical roots in the Roman Empire.
 They were played in parts of the Empire as far away as Turkey and France and are still played today, especially in Italy.
 All of the games are two-player abstract strategy board games.
 Normally, the game is played with three hunters and one bear on a patterned board.
 It bears similarity to the hunt games such as the Fox games, Rimau-rimau, and Bagha-Chall, however, there are no captures involved.
 The three hunters are trying to hem in the bear, and block its movements.
Nine Men's Morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire.
 The game is also known as Nine Man Morris, Mill, Mills, The Mill Game, Merels, Merrills, Merelles, Marelles, Morelles and Ninepenny Marl in English.
 The game has also been called Cowboy Checkers and is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards. Nine Men's Morris is a solved game in which either player can force the game into a draw.

Question: Are Halma and Nine Men's Morris both strategy board games?
Answer: yes