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So you're sitting around doing nothing and you ask a friend to play a friendly game of tic-tac-toe. Competitive people never want to lose in anything and there are two sure-fire ways of avoiding defeat in that game. more »
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Tic tac toe, whose name has several variations according to its players' geographical location, is a simple game that all children have once given... more »
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Tic Tac Toe is a simple game to play. It is so easy that it can be played by children as young as five. Oftentimes, it is played in hopes of... more »
Tic tac toe is a simple game that is often played to fill time. It is one of the first games learned by many, and can be played anywhere there is... more »
Tic-tac-toe, also spelled tick tack toe, and alternatively called noughts and crosses, Xs and Os, and many other names, is a pencil-and-paper game for two players, O and X, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid, usually X going first. The player who succeeds in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row wins the game.
The following example game is won by the first player, X:
Players soon discover that best play from both parties leads to a draw. Hence, tic-tac-toe is most often played by young children; when they have discovered an unbeatable strategy they move on to more sophisticated games such as dots and boxes or 12-cell tic-tac-toe. This reputation for ease has led to casinos offering gamblers the chance to play tic-tac-toe against trained chickens—though the chicken is advised by a computer program.
The simplicity of tic-tac-toe makes it ideal as a pedagogical tool for teaching the concepts of combinatorial game theory and the branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the searching of game trees. It is straightforward to write a computer program to play tic-tac-toe perfectly, to enumerate the 765 essentially different positions (the state space complexity), or the 26,830 possible games up to rotations and reflections (the game tree complexity) on this space.
The first known video game, OXO (or Noughts and Crosses, 1952) for the EDSAC computer played perfect games of tic-tac-toe against a human opponent.
One example of a Tic-Tac-Toe playing computer is the Tinkertoy computer, developed by MIT students, and made out of Tinker Toys. It only plays Tic-Tac-Toe and has never lost a game. It is currently on display at the Museum of Science, Boston.
Number of possible games
Despite its apparent simplicity, it requires some complex mathematics to determine the number of possible games. This is further complicated by the definitions used when setting the conditions.< read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
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