US 8,210,537 B1 · Multi-grid tic-tac-toe game

Abstract

A multi-grid tic-tac-toe game herein requires players to strategically plan moves in advance. An associated game apparatus includes a plurality of individual tic-tac-toe grids. Each grid includes playing areas that receive playing pieces. At least one of the grids shares at least one common playing area with another one of the grids. To play, different players use different sets of playing pieces. The players take turns placing their pieces in different playing areas, attempting to form tic-tac-toes. A player forms a tic-tac-toe if he or she places a predetermined number of pieces in a corresponding number of adjacent playing areas that are aligned, irrespective of whether those playing areas belong to different grids. Points are awarded for each tic-tac-toe, and are accumulated over the course of the game. The game apparatus may include a mechanism for tracking each player's points. The winner is the player with the most points accumulated.

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Dependent claims

A multi-grid tic-tac-toe game apparatus comprising a plurality of individual tic-tac-toe grids, each of the individual tic-tac-toe grids including a plurality of playing areas configured to receive playing pieces, and at least one of the individual tic-tac-toe grids sharing at least one common playing area with another one of the individual tic-tac-toe grids.

A computer program product stored on a computer readable medium tangible and comprising computer program code that, when executed by a processor associated with a computing device, causes the computing device to implement a tic-tac-toe game between at least two players, by causing the computing device to:

display a multi-grid tic-tac-toe game board on a viewing surface, the multi-grid tic-tac-toe game board comprising a plurality of individual tic-tac-toe grids, each of the individual tic-tac-toe grids including a plurality of playing areas, and at least one of the individual tic-tac-toe grids sharing at least one common playing area with another one of the individual tic-tac-toe grids;
alternately accept from said players input associated with tic-tac-toe moves, the input associated with a player's tic-tac-toe move comprising a selection of one of said playing areas;
and
responsive to input from a player, determine, based on any of that player's previous tic-tac-toe moves as recorded in a memory, whether the player's current tic-tac-toe move results in one or more tic-tac-toes.

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