Tic Tac Doh!
Tic Tac Doh! | ||
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Brian Schultze | ||
Slightly twisted variant of Tic-Tac-Toe | ||
Players: | ||
Length: | unknown | |
Complexity: | Low | |
Trios per color: | 5 | |
Number of colors: | 1 | |
- - - - - - Other equipment - - - - - - | ||
imaginary board | ||
Setup time: | none | |
Strategy depth: | Low | |
Random chance: | None | |
Theme: | Tic Tac Toe | |
BGG Link: | 17748 | |
Status: Not Specified (v1.0), Year released: 2987 | ||
Tic Tac Doh is a two player Tic Tac Toe variant using Icehouse pieces on an imaginary board. The game requires only a single stash of pyramids.
Tic Tac Doh was published in Hypothermia #15.
Rules
Goal: Get three pieces of the same size in a row in an imaginary 3x3 grid.
Players take turns placing the Icehouse pieces on the table in the following manner:
Each piece must be placed in an imaginary square next to or on top of a piece already in play. (Diagonally counts as next to.) A piece cannot be played if it would lie outside the imaginary 3x3 grid. Note: Since you create the grid as you go, you don't know where out of bounds is until you have played a few pieces. For example, the first piece you play can either be the center, corner or edge. Nobody knows until a few more piece have been played.
You can play a piece on top of another piece in two ways. The first is playing a smaller piece on top of a piece one size larger, forming a tree of pieces. This grouping counts as any of the pieces it contains. For example, a medium piece could be played on top of a large piece. This tree would now count as either a large or medium when trying to get three in a row. A small piece could then be played on top of the tree, making it count as any of the three types.
The second way to play a piece on top of another is to nest them, by placing a larger piece on top of a piece one size smaller. For example, a medium could be played on top of a small one. Later on, a large could be played on top of the nest. A nest only counts as the outermost (biggest) piece. So a nest with a small and a medium only counts as a medium piece. A square cannot have both a nest and a tree. Like chess, once you let go of a piece, it is considered played and cannot be moved.
Players take turns putting a piece on the board until someone gets three pieces of the same size in a row, or until all of the pieces have been placed on the board (a tie). In the event that a person cannot make a legal move on his turn (but there are still pieces left), the other player wins.
Designer's Comments:
This might work reasonably well as a 3- or 4-person game, but has not been tried.
The game is easier to see (and better-looking), if you use different colors for the different sizes of pieces; for example, red smalls, orange mediums, and yellow larges.
External Links
- The official rules are available online.
- Tic Tac Doh is listed on BoardGameGeek.
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