Noughts and Crosses, MSN Style

[Shados]

While evading homework by talking to Mecheon over MSN, I was messing arround with the box character (ࢮ, it can be found by using practically any Alt character code in MSN), we accidentaly invented MSN noughts and crosses. The first game went something like this:

Me:
ࢮࢮࢮ
ࢮOࢮ
ࢮࢮࢮ

Mech:
ࢮࢮX
ࢮOࢮ
ࢮࢮࢮ

Me:
OࢮX
ࢮOࢮ
ࢮࢮࢮ

Mech:
OࢮX
ࢮOࢮ
ࢮࢮX

Me:
OࢮX
ࢮOO
ࢮࢮX

Mech:
OࢮX
XOO
ࢮࢮX

Me:
OOX
XOO
ࢮࢮX

Mech:
OOX
XOO
ࢮXX

Me:
OOX
XOO
OXX

As you can see the terrible battle ended in a draw. Realising that it was one of the most perfectly off-topic things I have ever done, I rushed here to post word of it.

-*meow*

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I think you can also just click 'Invite person to game' .. where you also have this game -.-

 

[MapperForLife]

yeh i always win at these

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Silly, you need to start in a corner for anybody to win.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

In America it's called Tic Tac Toe.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Silly, you need to start in a corner for anybody to win.

Wtf are you talking about if your the first on turn just go to the middle straight away.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

Wtf are you talking about if your the first on turn just go to the middle straight away.

there has been genuine research into winning at noughts and crosses and i think the best chance of winning, without losing, is by going in the corner.

 

[Technomancer]

Winning without losing? Thats IMPOSSIBLE!

 

[GST_Nemisis]

no i mean that statistically, going into the corner will give you the most wins and the least losses over a certain number of games. so say oyu play 100 games, you may win 50, draw 35 and only lose 15 with a corner.

 

[THE_END]

Yea Tic Tac Toe over here in the US
I saw noughts and crosses and was kinda confused

 

[Teh_Ephy]

In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Tic-Tac-Toe is also used. Anyways, I saw the diagram and assumed Tic-Tac-Toe v Noughts and Crosses is just vernacular. If you think about it, Noughts and Crosses makes more sense (nought = nothing = 0 = O, crosses = † = + = X).

 

[Shados]

I think you can also just click 'Invite person to game' .. where you also have this game -.-

Yeah but this is more hardcore, just like using SHIFT and not Caps Lock.

-*meow*

 

[Grivus Dorelock]

Tic tac toe should always end in a draw.

 

[Ralle]

why not use the table tags?

X	?	O
?	X	O
?	O	X

 

[Shados]

Because MSN does not have table tags.

-*meow*

 

[brad.dude03]

Rofl. I had to make an X's and O's (most people call it here, between that and tic-tac-toe) game in my programming class. I didn't know that the magic square had anything to do with a simple game lol. It was pretty awesome though. If you aren't an idiot, ands you're playing against an evenly matched player, you can never win. For example, for my program to get a good mark, the AI had to be unbeatable. This was very easy to achieve.

 

[MapperForLife]

I'm british Most common names i've used for this game
Tic Tac Toe
Noughts and Crosses
Pattern!
Lets Play X's & O's