Tic Tac Toe is shit

>>54199893
Welcome to Grade 8.

Make it more interesting by expanding the grid to 4x4 instead of 3x3.

>>54199893

It's a solved game and neither side can force a win.

One variant I like is two flip two coins each move. If it's a head and a tail move as normal, if it's two tails you have to make a mark for your opponent, if it's two heads you erase a mark, one of your opponents if possible but if they don't have any you have to suicide one. It's not great but between the randomness and the inability to perceive future opportunities it's at least a little better.

Reverse tic-tac-toe where you have to play but the goal is to force your opponent to win isn't much better, but at least the strats aren't as obvious.

Ultimate Tic Tac Toe is a much more interesting game, AFAIK remains unsolved, but is pushing the upper limit for how far a game can go before it stops being tic tac toe to begin with.

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/ultimate-tic-tac-toe-original-post/

https://xkcd.com/832/

>>54200020
Ultimate Tic Tac Toe looks like a blast, cheers anon.

>>54199893
One that I play is that you 3 pieces and the must be placed in that order. Once all the pieces are down you got to move your first piece to a new spot.

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I found a variant a couple of weeks ago that looked quite interesting. Never bothered to play it yet, though.

The way it works is like in the pic. You start in the centre of the board. First player places his mark. The second player than has to play to the corresponding board on the larger grid. In the pic, X goes first. He places his mark in the centre square. O then has to place a mark in the centre box again (in the top right). X then goes again and has to place a mark in the top right larger grid.

The goal is to score three in a row of the larger grids.

Could be a fun variant.

>>54204812
I used to play this in school, it kind of takes some time to get going but overall it's pretty great.