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Tic-tac-toe A completed game of tic-tac-toe Other names Noughts and Crosses Xs and Os Genres Paper-and-pencil game Players 2 Setup time Minimal Playing time ~1 minute Chance None Skills Strategy, tactics, observation Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns ...
Hence, every winning-strategy of First in a strong-positional game is also a winning-strategy of Maker in the corresponding maker-breaker game. The opposite is not true. For example, in the maker-breaker variant of Tic-Tac-Toe, Maker has a winning strategy, but in its strong-positional (classic) variant, Second has a drawing strategy. [2]
Bertie the Brain was a video game version of tic-tac-toe, built by Dr. Josef Kates for the 1950 Canadian National Exhibition. [1] Kates had previously worked at Rogers Majestic designing and building radar tubes during World War II, then after the war pursued graduate studies in the computing center at the University of Toronto while continuing to work at Rogers Majestic. [2]
This chart had drawings of tic-tac-toe game grids with various configurations of X, O, and empty squares, [4] corresponding to all possible permutations a game could go through as it progressed. [11] After removing duplicate arrangements (ones that were simply rotations or mirror images of other configurations), MENACE used 304 permutations in ...
A complete game of Notakto, a misère variant of the game. Tic-tac-toe is an instance of an m,n,k-game, where two players alternate taking turns on an m×n board until one of them gets k in a row. [1] Harary's generalized tic-tac-toe is an even broader generalization. The game can also be generalized as a n d game. [2]
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A positional game is a game in which players alternate in taking possession of a given set of elements, with the goal of forming a winning configuration of elements; for instance, in tic-tac-toe and gomoku, the elements are the squares of a grid, and the winning configurations are lines of squares. These examples are symmetric: both players ...
This is the category for all variants of the game tic-tac-toe. Pages in category "Tic-tac-toe variants" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total ...