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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 ...
Ultimate tic-tac-toe (also known as UTT, super tic-tac-toe, meta tic-tac-toe, (tic-tac-toe)² or Ultimate Naughts and Crosses [1]) is a board game composed of nine tic-tac-toe boards arranged in a 3 × 3 grid. [2] [3] Players take turns playing on the smaller tic-tac-toe boards until one of them wins on the larger board. Compared to traditional ...
Order and Chaos is a variant of the game tic-tac-toe on a 6×6 gameboard. It was invented by Stephen Sniderman and introduced by him in Games magazine in 1981. [1] The player Order strives to create a five-in-a-row of either Xs or Os. The opponent Chaos endeavors to prevent this.
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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]
An m,n,k-game is an abstract board game in which two players take turns in placing a stone of their color on an m-by-n board, the winner being the player who first gets k stones of their own color in a row, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. [1] [2] Thus, tic-tac-toe is the 3,3,3-game and free-style gomoku is the 15,15,5-game.
The classic example of a positional game is tic-tac-toe. In it, X {\displaystyle X} contains the 9 squares of the game-board, F {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}} contains the 8 lines that determine a victory (3 horizontal, 3 vertical and 2 diagonal), and the winning criterion is: the first player who holds an entire winning-set wins.
In tic-tac-toe, pieces are placed (or marks are made) until the board is full; if neither player has an orthogonal or diagonal line at this point, the game is a draw. Extended tic-tac-toe, like the three men's morris game, each player has three pieces, but when moving pieces, players must first move their first pieces, then the second pieces ...