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  2. Tic-tac-toe - Wikipedia

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    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 marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner.

  3. WarGames - Wikipedia

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    Falken and David direct the computer to play tic-tac-toe against itself. This results in a long string of draws, forcing the computer to learn the concept of futility and no-win scenarios. WOPR obtains the launch codes, but before launching, it cycles through all the nuclear war scenarios it has devised, finding that they all result in draws as ...

  4. Ultimate tic-tac-toe - Wikipedia

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    Ultimate tic-tac-toe (also known as super tic-tac-toe, meta tic-tac-toe or (tic-tac-toe)² [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 tic-tac-toe, strategy in this game ...

  5. Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine - Wikipedia

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    The Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine (sometimes called the Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine or MENACE) was a mechanical computer made from 304 matchboxes designed and built by artificial intelligence researcher Donald Michie in 1961. It was designed to play human opponents in games of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) by ...

  6. Tic-tac-toe variants - Wikipedia

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    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] The game can be generalised even further from the above variants by playing on an ...

  7. Game tree - Wikipedia

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    Game tree. In the context of combinatorial game theory, which typically studies sequential games with perfect information, a game tree is a graph representing all possible game states within such a game. Such games include well-known ones such as chess, checkers, Go, and tic-tac-toe. This can be used to measure the complexity of a game, as it ...

  8. Tic-Tac-Dough - Wikipedia

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    December 7, 1990. ( 1990-12-07) Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–86 run initially on CBS and then ...

  9. First-player and second-player win - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing optimal strategy for tic-tac-toe. With perfect play, and from any initial move, both players can always force a draw. In combinatorial game theory, a two-player deterministic perfect information turn-based game is a first-player-win if with perfect play the first player to move can always force a win.