how do I find a Mixed strategy nash equilibrium for a 5x3 matrix?

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(Player A is on the left, Player B is on the top.)

I am trying to find a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for a $5\times 3$ matrix (table below). I've only gone as far as proving that the one strategy that is never a best response (strategy 1/4/6) does not get strictly dominated by any mixed strategy $\sigma_{l1} = (p, 1-p)$. The way I did that was that I set three inequalities: $u_a(\sigma_{l1} [\text{mixed strategy}], S_{acf(/cdf/cef separately)}) > u_a(S_{146}, S_{acf/cdf/cef})$, and I always got contradicting equations (or rather inequalities where there simply was no $p$ that fulfilled all three equations). Now I am stuck, though, as to what to do next. I have tried to set inequalities where S_146 was the best response to a mixed strategy from Player B and plotted those results on a graph, but that didn't seem to make much sense to me. I seriously don't know how to progress. Can anybody provide me with a push into the right direction?

acf cdf cef
1 2 4 0.45,0.55 0.75,0.25 0.2,0.8
1 3 6 0.5,0.5 0.55,0.45 0.65,0.35
1 4 6 0.5,0.5 0.65,0.35 0.55,0.45
3 4 6 0.8,0.2 0.6,0.4 0.6,0.4
3 5 6 0.75,0.25 0.750.25 0.45,0.55