The first worldwide Tic Tac Toe championship is underway

The childhood classic is going pro — and just about anyone who wants to play is eligible. Top players will battle it out in ...
The Daily Campus

Tic-tac-toe, rubber ducks and the process of discovery

I was playing tic-tac-toe with a friend the other day. Even saying that sounds weird. Tic-tac-toe is an objectively bad game that is solved. Given perfect play, both players will tie without fail.
Futurism

Scientists Used DNA to Play the Tiniest Game of Tic-Tac-Toe Ever

The world’s smallest game of tic-tac-toe could have a big impact on the future of nanotechnology. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new technique for ...
EdSurge

Tic-Tac-Toe Your Way to Teacher Choice: A New Model for PD

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. “If we want to see teachers embrace student choice,” educator and ...
Ars Technica

Caltech scientists use DNA tiles to play tic-tac-toe at the nanoscale

There’s rarely time to write about every cool science story that comes our way. So this year, we’re running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell through ...
Fast Company

From Tic-Tac-Toe to Monopoly, a mathematician reveals the design secret of great games

Below, du Sautoy shares five key insights from his new book, Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the ...