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Line 12: ... And I like your printout of the board. I really did do a minimal version of the game for Python. Maybe someone else will do a fancy version in Python for comparison? --[[User:Paddy3118\|Paddy3118]] 12:45, 5 February 2011 (UTC) : I took that approach and added still more whitespace (for the REXX entry).   To make the game board (grid) easier to see (without the reference numbers --- otherwise it gets cluttered/obfuscated pretty fast with any game board larger than nine cells)   --- I removed the   ''numbering''   grid and placed it to the right of the playing board (along with generous whitespace.   --- this causes a reference game board (grid) to be displayed, making it a lot easier on the ole eyeballs to see who has what markers where, and what's available for a move (empty cell), and in specifying where to <strike>move</strike> place a piece/marker.   -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger\|talk]]) 16:18, 3 October 2017 (UTC) : An illuminating example   (from a   '''4'''×'''4'''   tic─tac─toe game in progress): <pre> ───────── computer places a marker [O] at cell number 16 ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ║ ║ ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ═════╬═════╬═════╬═════ ─────┼─────┼─────┼───── ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ║ X ║ ║ X 5 │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ═════╬═════╬═════╬═════ ─────┼─────┼─────┼───── ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ║ O ║ ║ 9 │ 10 │ 11 │ 12 ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ═════╬═════╬═════╬═════ ─────┼─────┼─────┼───── ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ║ ║ ║ O 13 │ 14 │ 15 │ 16 ║ ║ ║ │ │ │ ───────── Please enter a cell number to place your next marker [X] (or Quit): </pre> == letting the human win (sometimes) == A note on the REXX solution:   tic-tac-toe games,   if played perfectly,   will always end in a draw, making it a   [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futile_game futile game]. <br>(~~Except for~~For the case for a   '''2x2'''   grid, a win is guaranteed for the player moving first.) Since kids may be playing it   (or adults with very short attention spans),   I programmed a "hole" in the logic of the REXX program   so that if a human player plays first (the default),   they may win if a certain pair of moves are made.   -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] 23:49, 10 December 2012 (UTC) Line 25 ⟶ 51: I'm surprised that   BASIC,   FORTRAN,   and   PL/I   computer programming languages haven't had solutions entered   (at the time of this posting).   Tic-tac-toe was one of the first games written in any language as it was so simple to program and display.   I still have my FORTRAN and PL/I programs laying around from the mid 1960s which played on a   NxN   grid.   Now, if I could only find a card reader ... -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] 19:10, 23 April 2012 (UTC) == 3D tic-~~tax~~tac-toe == Has anyone thought of writing/entering a   '''3D'''   version of tic-tac-toe for Rosetta Code   (as a separate task, of course)?