In game theory, a futile game is a game that permits a draw or a tie when optimal moves are made by both players. An example of this type of game is the...

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game tree complexity) on this space. If played optimally by both players, the game always ends in a draw, making tic-tac-toe a futile game. The game can...

known as super tic-tac-toe, meta tic-tac-toe or (tic-tac-toe)²) is a board game composed of nine tic-tac-toe boards arranged in a 3 × 3 grid. Players take...

An m,n,k-game is an abstract board game in which two players take turns in placing a stone of their color on an m-by-n board, the winner being the player...

Three men's morris is an abstract strategy game played on a three by three board (counting lines) that is similar to tic-tac-toe. It is also related to...

OXO is a video game developed by A S Douglas in 1952 which simulates a game of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe). It was one of the first games developed...

strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills...

Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller. It is published and copyrighted by Gigamic. The game is played on a...

Gomoku, also called Five in a Row, is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a 15×15 Go...

pencil game for two or more players. It is similar to tic-tac-toe and dots and boxes, but has much greater complexity. SOS is a combinatorial game when...

tic-tac-toe, also known by the trade name Qubic, is an abstract strategy board game, generally for two players. It is similar in concept to traditional tic-tac-toe...

Tic-tac-toe is an instance of an m,n,k-game, where two players alternate taking turns on an m×n board until one of them gets k in a row. Harary's generalized...

Gobblet is a board game for two players designed by Thierry Denoual and published in 2001 by Gigamic and Blue Orange Games. Gobblet was a finalist for...

is an impartial game similar to tic-tac-toe. However, in this game players can choose to place either X or O on each move. This game can also be played...

Order and Chaos is a variant of the game tic-tac-toe on a 6×6 gameboard. It was invented by Stephen Sniderman and introduced by him in Games magazine in...

Achi is a two-player abstract strategy game from Ghana. It is also called tapatan. It is related to tic-tac-toe, but even more related to three men's morris...

which the players' moves are "superpositions" of plays in the classical game. The game was invented by Allan Goff of Novatia Labs, who describes it as "a way...

chouhou (萬朝報). The name "renju" means "connected pearls" in Japanese. The game is played with black and white stones on a 15×15 gridded go board. The rule...

fixed, the higher-dimensional, multi-player, n-in-a-row generalization of a game of tic-tac-toe with c players cannot end in a draw, no matter how large n...

A nd game (or nk game) is a generalization of the combinatorial game tic-tac-toe to higher dimensions. It is a game played on a nd hypercube with 2 players...

Nine holes is a two-player abstract strategy game from different parts of the world and is centuries old. It was very popular in England. It is related...

player in the great Bolshevik game in Inner Asia, ended his Shambhala quest in a secret police prison morgue. By the 1930s, futile compromises with the Bolshevik...

Kaplansky's game or Kaplansky's n-in-a-line is an abstract board game in which two players take turns in placing a stone of their color on an infinite...

Number Scrabble (also known as Pick15 or 3 to 15) is a mathematical game where players take turns to select numbers from 1 to 9 without repeating any numbers...

Engineering, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is a two-player strategy game similar to Gomoku. Two players, Black and White, alternately place two stones...

The first season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on April 17, 2011, in the U.S. and concluded on June 19, 2011...

a prose poem regarding the destructive power of the atomic bomb and the futile nature of war in the atomic age. The name refers to the Trinity test, the...

Free". AusGamers. Archived from the original on July 28, 2021. Retrieved August 18, 2014. Rougeau, Mike (November 25, 2014). "Resistance is Futile: The New...

"Resistance Is Futile" is the ninth episode of the second season and twenty-first overall episode of the American television drama series Dexter, which...