You Can Now Play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe in Google's Search Results (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:31AM from the some-fun-is-not-bad dept.

Paul Sawers, writing for VentureBeat: Google announced a couple of fun little nuggets today: you can now play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe directly in Google's search results. Available through the desktop and Google mobile apps, anyone searching for the keywords "solitaire" or "tic-tac-toe" will see the usual search results, but featured prominently alongside them you'll also now see a "tap to play" option which whisks you off to play the game. Google is no stranger to hiding so-called "easter eggs" in its products, including Search -- for example, last year it had a surprise in store to mark the anniversary of Super Mario. Moreover, Google already lets you play some games within Search, including Pacman.

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Pic Tac Toe by nuckfuts · 2016-08-25 08:09 · Score: 3, Interesting

The problem with Tic Tac Toe is that it's too deterministic. It will always end in a draw unless one player does something stupid.
That's why I made up a variant I call "Pic Tac Toe". On each player's move, they can choose to write either an X or an O. The first person to get any three in a row wins.
I don't know if anyone else has come up with this, or if it can also be proven to be deterministic. I suspect that it might be, but at least it adds a bit more variety to the game.