We consider the following three-player strategic form game, where Alice's strategies are U, C, and D, and Bob's strategies are L, M, and R, and Carol's strategies are A and B. Carol's strategy consists of choosing which table will be used for the payoffs, Table A or Table B. Table A is below, where for each cell the first number is Alice's payoff, the second number is Bob's payoff and the third number is Carol's payoff.

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We consider the following three-player strategic form game, where Alice's strategies are U, C, and D, and Bob's strategies are L, M, and R, and Carol's strategies are A and B. Carol's strategy consists of choosing which table will be used for the payoffs, Table A or Table B.

Table A is below, where for each cell the first number is Alice's payoff, the second number is Bob's payoff and the third number is Carol's payoff.

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  L M R
U 8,11,14 3,13,9 0,5,8
C 9,9,8 8,7,7 6,5,7
D 0,8,12 4,9,2 0,4,8
       
    Table A  




Table B is below, where again, for each cell, the first number is Alice's payoff, the second number is Bob's payoff and the third number is Carol's payoff.

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  L M R
U 14,1,0 13,2,11 1,3,2
C 0,0,2 7,2,3 14,3,2
D 7,12,11 12,12,0 2,11,2
       
    Table B  




This game may not have any Nash equilibrium in pure strategies, or it may have one or more equilibria.

How many Nash equilibria does this game have?

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