Electronic tic-tack-toe game
OwnerBenjamin J. Barishinventor
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Abstract
A pocket-calculator type electronic game is described for playing Tic-Tack-Toe. The game includes a keyboard having a 3-by-3 matrix of keys each of which may be depressed once to input an "O", and twice to input an "X"; a matrix display for displaying the inputted O's and X's; a mode selector for selectively operating the device according to either a Continuous-Display Mode (wherein the inputted indications are continuously displayed), or a Suppressed-Display Mode (wherein the inputted indications are displayed only when a complete line of one of the indications has been inputted); and a "Tilt" indicator energized whenever a player depresses a key which had previously been depressed in the same game. The latter two features introduce a memory factor in playing the game.
Claims9
An electrical device for playing the game Tick-Tack-Toe, comprising:
- a keyboard including a plurality of manipulatable keyboard elements for inputting an "O" or "X" indication in each position of a 3-by-3 rectangular matrix;
- optical display means including a matrix display capable of displaying an "O" and an "X" indication in each matrix position;
- and an electrical circuit including means controlled by said keyboard elements for displaying cumulatively the "O" and "X" indications inputted during a game sequence in the matrix positions inputted, means for detecting when a complete horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of "O" or "X" indications have been inputted, and suppressing means effective to suppress the display in said matrix display of the cumulative indications inputted during a game sequence until the inputting of a complete line of "O" or "X" indications has been detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.