Super Tic Tac Toe

Super Tic Tac Toe is a turn-based strategy board game with simple rules of Tic Tac Toe.

Super Tic Tac Toe is known by many different names, including Mega Tic Tac Toe, Ultimate Tic Tac Toe and Tic Tac Toe on Nine Boards.

How to play

Super Tic Tac Toe is like original Tic Tac Toe but with nine boards in a 3x3 grid. The trick is that a player can't choose freely which board to play on.

First move

The starting player can first choose any of nine boards, and then play on that board exactly like in original Tic Tac Toe.

Following moves

The next player must always play on a board matching a cell played on the previous turn - each cell map to a similarly positioned board.

In the example, X played in the cell number 6, so O must play on the board number 6 (in yellow).

Because O decided to play in the middle cell, X will play next on the middle board.

The game then continues like that turn-by-turn.

Additional important rule: If a board was already resolved (win or full), a player can't play on that board, but chooses freely any unresolved board.

Winning the game

The first player to get three boards in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line wins the game. Note that it's three boards instead of cells as in original Tic Tac Toe.

Here is an example of an almost completed game: It's O's turn on the yellow board, but it doesn't matter where O plays anymore, since X can win the top-right board next, and thus, X wins three board in up-right line.

Simple strategy game

Super Tic Tac Toe has no winning strategy, unlike the original Tic Tac Toe game, and I have very little to say about that. However, it's obvious that winning a single Tic Tac Toe board doesn't really mean much at all.

Credits

• Sounds NoiseForFun.com
• Medal icons Pixabay.com