Kal-toh
Kal-toh was a Vulcan game of intense strategy that could be played solitaire or by multiple individuals. 

The object of kal-toh, as stated by Tuvok, was "not about striving for balance but about finding the seeds of order even in the midst of profound chaos." A kal-toh set consisted of a number of playing rods called t'an. Harry Kim rather described it as "The object of the game is to turn this jumble of rods into a perfect sphere", and that each player took turns to position pieces, the one managing to form the final intended shape winning. ()

When Kim referred to kal-toh as "Vulcan chess", Tuvok commented that, "Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to tic-tac-toe." () Kim played several games with Tuvok, noting that it was surprisingly addictive for a game of pure logic, although he never managed to defeat Tuvok before Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant. ()

A common error among novice players was to place the t'an on opposite sides of the kal-toh attempting to introduce a spatial balance, a strategy that would most certainly fail. ()

In the holoprogram created by The Doctor, EMH program 4C in 2373, the holograms of  and  played kal-toh together. ()

Tuvok, Icheb, and Kim often played a match of kal-toh together. Tuvok had been taking lessons from a master from age five. Icheb also was quite talented with the game, although Tuvok blamed Icheb's first victory over him on an early manifestation of his degenerative neurological condition. ()

During a game played by Tuvok and Kim, Seven of Nine took a turn for Kim and beat Tuvok in one move, claiming she used elementary spatial harmonics to do so. ()

In 2399, Seven of Nine and Raffaela Musiker played kal-toh aboard La Sirena. ()

In 2404 of an alternate timeline, Captain Kim kept a kal-toh game in his ready room aboard the . ()

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