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... 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)
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== 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].
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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)
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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-
Has anyone thought of writing/entering a '''3D''' version of tic-tac-toe for Rosetta Code (as a separate task, of course)?
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