More about Tic Tac Toe

                 Tic-tac-toe (also known as noughts and crosses or Xs and Os) is a paper and pencil game  for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game.

             In order to solve Tic-Tac-Toe, we need to go deeper than just to think about it as a game where two players place X’s and O’s on the board. Formally speaking, Tic-Tac-Toe is a zero-sum and perfect information game. It means that each participant’s gain is equal to the other participants’ losses and we know everything about the current game state.

History behind tic-tac-toe

Around the 1st century B.C, this game was first introduced during the Roman Empire. It didn’t go by its current name but rather was called “three pebbles at a time”. If you search over the internet, you will even find images of the game’s grid which were found drawn on many Roman ruins. Not only Roman but Egyptian ruins also bear witness to such chalking.

The game was first called ‘tic-tac-toe’ in 1884 but was considered as a children’s game.

Secret Strategies to win Tic-tac-toe

Tic-tac-toe is a very mindful game. You have to be aware of every move of your opponent and even figure out which move you will make next.

To beat your opponent, be it a person or a computer even, you need to plan out a strategy.

You first need to figure out how you can make those three X’s in a row and stop your opponent from winning as well.

Watch your opponent’s every move. For example, if they put two O’s in a row, then you MUST put an X in the next square to those consecutive O’s or you’ll lose.

In short, you must be very vigilant while making your moves. This is the only way you’ll never lose a game of tic-tac-toe. If you’ll not win then at least you will have a tie. 

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