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SOS

History and Overview 2023-06-13 v1

Abstract

SOS is a game similar to tic-tac-toe. We study a variety of variations of it played on a 1-by-nn rectangle. On our journey we change the target string to SOO, then study all target strings containing SSS, then go back to finite strings and study SOSO. Then we create a variation with two target strings SSSS-OOOO. We continue with mis\`{e}re games. After that we look at different changes of the board: we wrap the board around, add dimension, and allow it to expand. We end with a variation that came from the ultimate tic-tac-toe.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2306.06197,
  title  = {SOS},
  author = {Jasper Caravan and Michael Han and Andrew Kalashnikov and Tanya Khovanova and Ella Li and Alexander Meng and Vaibhav Rastogi and Gordon Redwine and Lev Strougov and Angela Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06197},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 tables

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