Original Blog Entry: Tic-Tac-Toe

Jack-C — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:50:22 GMT

I'm moving this up.

A TTT (Tic-Tac-Toe) is a square that I think most of us are familiar with. Simple game of placing Xs and Os into a 3X3 square with the person getting 3 in a row becoming the winner (if they do!)

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There are only 8 winners (3 horizonal, 3 vertical and 2 diagonal).

Here on LP a few people have been posting what they call TTT , but it has a LOT more winners than 8! Some will claim a hit if the 3 digits are anywhere in the square. Well, with a possible 9 digits, they are covering 84 possible combos!

Some claim that the numbers must touch to qualify as a hit in the Puzzle or Box. That is what I am currently using. So, in the Puzzle/Box above, 156 qualifies. What I like are the normal TTT 8 combos along with triangles like 153 in the above example. 539 would be another, etc.

There are a lot of ways to construct the square. I'm not going to get into that right now. There are plenty of examples on LP...do a search for TTT . The way I look at my boxes, is look at the square and see if one of YOUR favorites jumps out at you!

I'm hoping this helps.

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