• This 1400 Page Book Can Beat You at Tic-Tac-Toe
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[QUOTE] [IMG]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/11/51e2e1984a6b959b39b748d861b40976.jpg[/IMG] There's no electronics, no electronic paper, no artificial intelligence, not even magic or the occult involved, but this thick [URL="http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/eb36/"]Tic Tac Tome[/URL] book can still play a mean game of noughts and crosses. While you're only ever allowed to play as the X, you still have the choice of going first, or letting the [URL="http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/eb36/"]$20[/URL] book make the opening salvo. And instead of drawing your mark on the game board, you simply flip to the page number indicated in the space you want to play, and the game progresses from there. There's no memory for keeping track of the high score, and no achievements for when you go on a winning streak, but you can pause the game at any time with a bookmark and its state-of-the-art display technology is perfectly visible in bright sunlight. Just be ready to upgrade it in a couple of years when they release a new edition with a fancy new font. [[URL="http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/eb36/"]ThinkGeek[/URL]] [/QUOTE]
It's pretty easy to force a tie, learned how to do it in third grade
Next thing you'll have a book that can beat you at chess...
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33391599]Next thing you'll have a book that can beat you at chess...[/QUOTE] A whole book? A single page could beat me at chess.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33391599]Next thing you'll have a book that can beat you at chess...[/QUOTE] 600 billion pages
[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;33391731]600 billion pages[/QUOTE] Well, you'd have to have a page for every possible state of the board. numbers aren't my thing, but I'm willing to bet there's more than 600 billion potential states.
[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;33391731]600 billion pages[/QUOTE] 10[sup]120[/sup] pages, if the internet is right. So, who wants to start writing?
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33391599]Next thing you'll have a book that can beat you at chess...[/QUOTE] [img]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50413_52493938363_8962_n.jpg[/img] OMG, chess is for nerds.
i was fucking making a joke holy shit
[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;33391877]i was fucking making a joke holy shit[/QUOTE] uh, okay. I was genuinely interested in how many pages you would need. :v:
[thumb]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tic_tac_toe_large.png[/thumb] XKCDs version is all I need.
[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;33391877]i was fucking making a joke holy shit[/QUOTE] I WAS FUCKING MAKING A JOKE hOLY SHIT
[QUOTE=SNNS-SEAN;33391873][img]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50413_52493938363_8962_n.jpg[/img] OMG, chess is for nerds.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pDDHW3HTdx8/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABk/cG-lMeMC0Ys/photo.jpg?sz=200[/IMG] Need I say more? Is there any way to win against this book I wonder?
This is actually a really awesome book idea, but it's not like it'll last you a long time
there are an infinite amount of moves you can play in Chess.
[QUOTE=The BoxDog;33395391]there are an infinite amount of moves you can play in Chess.[/QUOTE]No there aren't, there are billions, but I doubt that it's even possible for a board of set size like in chess to have infinite moves
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;33395438]No there aren't, there are billions, but I doubt that it's even possible for a board of set size like in chess to have infinite moves[/QUOTE] Let's say for sake of argument, you have 1 king, and 1 queen on both sides of the board. and both sides were in on it. You could move the queens between any two positions untill the [b]end of time[/b] so the game could never end.
[QUOTE=The BoxDog;33395482]Let's say for sake of argument, you have 1 king, and 1 queen on both sides of the board. and both sides were in on it. You could move the queens between any two positions untill the [b]end of time[/b] so the game could never end.[/QUOTE] I thought for the sake of the game, if there is a piece that can be jumped/checked/etc., you must take that move. Or at least that's how it seems to work in most digital games. But therefore, you can't play [i]forever[/i], as the game does not allow it.
[QUOTE=The BoxDog;33395391]there are an infinite amount of moves you can play in Chess.[/QUOTE] what how is that even possible
[QUOTE=The BoxDog;33395482]Let's say for sake of argument, you have 1 king, and 1 queen on both sides of the board. and both sides were in on it. You could move the queens between any two positions untill the [b]end of time[/b] so the game could never end.[/QUOTE] There's a rule where if no pieces are taken after a certain number of turns it becomes an automatic tie.
[QUOTE=NO ONE;33394846][IMG]http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pDDHW3HTdx8/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABk/cG-lMeMC0Ys/photo.jpg?sz=200[/IMG] Need I say more? Is there any way to win against this book I wonder?[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QlSJG.png[/IMG] :v:
Someone must be REALLY bored with their life to come up with something like this
The only winning move is not to play.
This is pretty neat but other than being a novelty I wonder who'd actually buy this for the purpose of playing tic tac toe.
[QUOTE=paul simon;33392111][thumb]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tic_tac_toe_large.png[/thumb] XKCDs version is all I need.[/QUOTE] I've been studying this for about fifteen minutes. I am incapable of understanding this.
I would have thought a book like this would already exist, and be published years ago.
The thing is, this book took almost 0 effort because it's VERY easy to write a computer program that generates this book for you. Not worth $20.
[QUOTE=Yogurt;33396765]The thing is, this book took almost 0 effort because it's VERY easy to write a computer program that generates this book for you. Not worth $20.[/QUOTE] Its still a cool coffee table book.
[QUOTE=Yogurt;33396765]The thing is, this book took almost 0 effort because it's VERY easy to write a computer program that generates this book for you. Not worth $20.[/QUOTE] You can do the same thing with a computer program for generating a book that plays Chess with you. Doesn't change the fact you'd need to deforest the entirety of New Zealand in order to print a copy of it, though.
Whats the movie where the kid has to vs the machine to stop nuclear warfare and challenges the machine to tic-tac-toe.
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