Help Document For TicTacToe

Introduction: Everybody knows 3*3 tic-tac-toe game where two players

put “X” and “O” in a 3*3 matrix on after the other untill a horizontal or
vertical or diagonally 3 same symbols are present. Then that person
wins the game. But after so many years, this classical version of game
has become very predictable and boring. So here is an attempt to revise
the tic-tac-toe game by increasing the difficulty level and make it more
interesting.

What is the game?

Previously in a tic-tac-toe game, each cell could be marked with either

“X” or “O” just by choice of the player. But here each cell has to be won
by a mini tictactoe game. So each cell is again a miniaturized tic-tac-toe
game as shown in figure below.
 As you can see in the above diagram, the actual game is with the
red lines. But if you want to mark in the centre cell, then you just cant
mark it there. Instead you have to win the mini-tic-tac game in the
central box. Only then you will have won the central box. Similarly the
case for all the nine boxes.

You can consider, winning mini tictactoe games as winning the

battles, but the ultimate goal of the game is to win the war. And
winning the overall game (marked in red lines) is winning the war.

In the game it’s not sure that both players play in same mini
tictactoe game and then proceed to another tictactoe game. Multiple
battle games will be played simultaneously and at the end the player
getting 3 consecutive serial boxes (may be horizontal or vertical or
diagonal) in his name will be the final winner. But the question is how
to decide which mini-game to be played in our turn as there are nine
mini games (due to 9 boxes). The answer is that your opponent’s last
move decides which mini-game you have to play in your current turn.
This rule is explained with the help of below diagram
In the above diagram, you can see 9 “P” are marked and one main box
or one mini game is highlighted with yellow. It shows that, if the
opponent has played in any of the place marked with P in his turn then
it means that you are forced to play in the yellow-highlighted minigame
in your turn. Also in that mini tic-tac-toe game whichever position you
choose to place your symbol, your opponent will be forced to play his
next move in a minigame corresponding to the position you placed your
symbol.
In the above diagrams, yellow highlighted cells are the cells where the
current move is allowed. By looking into above images, its evident that
my opponent’s last move decides in which block will I be playing my
current move and so I have more control over where my opponent will
play next and that’s the beauty of the game.

But sometimes what if the Box corresponding to opponents last

marking doesn’t have any squares left or is won by either one of both
players? Then we can’t put our current symbol in that box anymore. In
such cases, the player himself can choose any box he wants to mark his
symbol as shown in below diagram.

In the diagram, Central box is completely filled up and there is no

place for any more marking. But the last move of “O” was placed in the
Centre cell of Upper box U So indicating next move of “X” must be
placed in Central Box M. But since its not possible, the player himself
can now choose which Box to be played with to mark “X”. So you can
see that al remaining empty cells are highlighted with yellow indicating
that any of this cell can be used. Here the case of no cell left in Box is
demonstrated. But this is valid for The Box is won by either “X’ or “O”
case too.

In this way when the player wins 3 serial boxes then he wins same as in
classical tictactoe game