Tic-tac-toe (or “Noughts and Crosses”) is a game simple enough to implement in any computer system: indeed it’s often used in beginner’s programming courses. A more challenging project ...

Simpler games like tic-tac-toe have been solved for all possible positions for a while now, so even a simple computer will always win or tie the game.

This is something that computers can do very well; that's why tic-tac-toe was the first graphical computer game ever created all the way back in 1952. With their sugar computer, Schiller and his ...

This allows the MAYA-II to play a complete game of Tic-Tac-Toe against a human opponent, and apparently nearly always win.

A DNA computer has been developed that can play tic-tac-toe against a human and never lose. The device uses a complex mixture of DNA strands and DNA-based enzymes to determine where it should ...

A DNA computer called MAYA has won every game of tic tac toe it has played against human opponents - over 100 in all. In the classic puzzle, also called noughts and crosses, two players take turns ...

A simple computer made of DNA strands in test tubes can now play a complete game of tic-tac-toe--and will beat or draw you every time. The result demonstrates a new level of complexity in DNA ...

This allows the MAYA-II to play a complete game of Tic-Tac-Toe against a human opponent, and apparently nearly always win.

A grid of 9 wells corresponds to the squares on a tic-tac-toe grid A computer that uses strands of DNA to perform calculations has mastered the game tic-tac-toe. MAYA-II, developed by researchers ...