Tic Tac Toe Extreme

Mathdino · Post Post #13 (isolation #0) » Sun Nov 09, 2014 12:52 pm

omg i love this game

I challenge the winner.

Mathdino · Post Post #32 (isolation #1) » Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:48 pm

In post 26, Blackberry wrote:I'm willing to play with someone if somebody else wants to play!

Quick clarification on the rules: Let's say someone wins one of the boxes (Example, Bottom Right Corner) but there are still unclaimed mini-boxes within that box - if someone is sent back to that Bottom Right Corner box are you playing where A) They must play in one of those boxes still if there is room, or B) They can now go anywhere. I've seen both ways so just wanted to confirm ^_^.

I challenge you.

You go first.

Mathdino · Post Post #33 (isolation #2) » Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:50 pm

Alternatively I could play winner and the winner of us could play the next person.

Boon, you wanna go?

Mathdino · Post Post #35 (isolation #3) » Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:21 am

That rule breaks the game. First move: top middle square in the top middle largesquare. Then you take literally every top middle square on the entire board and let them fill up theirs.
Rinse.
Repeat.
First player to move wins.

My friends and I play where if you send someone to a square already taken, the other person can move anywhere they like. It disincentivises placing too much value on particular squares, creates some really interesting games, and opens up the game (at least to the point where one player can't just dominate it if they get on a roll).

But sure, I PM'd Boonskiies seeing if he wants to play me. You could go against JDGA.

Mathdino · Post Post #37 (isolation #4) » Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:50 am

Khan Academy has a not that complex program that solves the game as X. Even if it's 2 humans, X still has a major advantage. So yeah that's been solved multiple times.

The freer version, I have no idea. I mean you could theoretically get a computer to chug it out, but no one's done it before (just checked). If I had to guess, it'd end with a draw in most places like normal TTT. That said, results would probably be different based on whether the computers are playing to win or playing to not lose, and what they know about the opponent's goals.

Some guy I know 'invented' it and majorly popularised it among the people we know (we called it Super Nintendo for no reason whatsoever), so I've played it without about 2 dozen people and it's awesome every time. Of them, I can comfortably say no one's solved it

Mathdino · Post Post #39 (isolation #5) » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:09 am

Dammit. Meh, still never met a human that solved it. I'd like to think Ultimate TTT has the complexity of checkers.

Variation looks cool, I'll try it with someone sometime and tell you how it goes.

Mathdino · Post Post #41 (isolation #6) » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:38 am

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Mathdino · Post Post #43 (isolation #7) » Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:54 am

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