You sound like someones whos name is Jeremy

One thing that's good about recursive tic tac toe is that you can score tiebreakers by counting the smaller boxes

Depth 2 is just strategic tic tack toe which is playable on cool math games. Although it’s cool that you made it go deeper than that

Broooo I've been wanting to code this exact thing forever, but never got around to it. Massive respect.

In the high school i went to, there was this one class that was a breeze, so my friend and I played one game of depth 3 over the course of 3 months. The strategy was insane.

i've played recursion tic tac toe before, the strategy is very deep. i can't even imagine playing level 3 recursion...

I came up with Depth 2 on my own as well! Going even deeper has to be WILD!!

I wonder how high you can put that depth value before the whole system goes kaput 😂

All we need now is a way to zoom in and pan the board so its playable by humans

Some pro tips: 1. On most CLIs (command line interfaces), you can press the up arrow key to cycle through your command history 2. In Python, there is a module you can use to parse command line arguments, called "argparse". With which you could do something like "python3 frontend․py -d 2" and prompt for the depth if it is not specified as a command line argument 3. On Windows 10 (and I'm guessing also 11) there is a way to be able to run python scripts without having to type python3 first: "PS C:\current\working\directory> frontend․py". I believe it involves a couple of Registry edits, but it's been a while and I don't remember exactly Interesting concept. Initially from the thumbnail and the beginning of the video, I thought the grid was going to automatically zoom out and expand as you play and resolve each layer (without exiting and relaunching), but I guess that would be infinite or progressive recursion not arbitrary recursion

I have looked everywhere for the answer to how ultimate x2 tic tac toe goes and got an extremely easy answer from just watching you play a couple moves, that being that no matter where you play at what level, there is always a 3x3 playable space corresponding to that spot

GitHub: github.com/LedrProjects/Recursive-Tic-Tac-Toe/tree/main

You did it, you made tic tac toe 2

this is called loose the battle win the war.

I learned the first recursive step of this game as Tic Tac Toe Fury, and I think the better version of the rules stipulates that 1) you can play in won squares, but cannot win them again, and 2) the only free (play anywhere) moves are the first one, and (possibly) when you get sent to a full square. Note that it is not full when it is won, but only after all 9 small squares are used up.

now i want to see just how optimised i can make something like this. Definitely the base game can be super fast but implementing an automated player that runs fast on a potato would be a fun challenge

Seems we had a similar idea - I implemented pretty much the same thing for my A-Level coursework, but in Rust using Raylib, and with some other features like an AI (sorta) opponent, importing/exporting games, other pieces, and a needlessly dynamic window title. I like the simplicity of yours, and also how readable your move checking code is (mine is an absolute nightmare)

your keyboard sounds nice

Make infinitely wide chess. The pieces repeat left and right. Checkmate ANY king to win. You only need to store the interacted squares (notation sequence of moves).

thats really cool! me and my friend came up with depth 3 tic tac toe a few weeks ago and i was thinking of coding it, but no idea how to start. this is great, well done!

I would strongly reccommend upping your mic gain or doing some processing on your audio during the editing process. Had to turn my computer to nearly max volume just to hear what you said. If this were released as a game, I'd recommend that a tie game use a different tone of shading from the shading used to highlight which board to play on next, as it could be confusing to the players, but as a proof of concept it's a really solid demo!

Thanks youtube for such kind of videos. Like the way you have done it. I made recursive tictactoe with depth of 2, but without gui, only console version

Is this what tic tac toe would look like if it was made by christopher nolan? The video is only missing the inception theme.

Mr. Lambda, you have my respect, sub, AND like. Keep up the good work!

Awesome! Small heads up though: you can press up arrow in most terminals to get back the last command you typed in, so you don't have to retype it each time :)

Ah, recursion; my favourite confusion-causing technique. It has some pretty good applications, too. There's exciting stuff like fractals for CGI and then there's slightly less exciting stuff that still has applications like equation evaluation. I mention equation evaluation because of sites like Desmos that can graph functions with heavily nested inputs just fine, and I've found that it uses recursion a good bit when I looked into how to implement it. Anyway, nice program! The fact you managed to pull this off tells me you can work with abstract concepts pretty well when coding. I imagine the bugfixing for this must've been... harrowing, to say the least.

Does an n-depth TicTacToe have a winning strategy? (That can be found before the universe ends…) Anyway nice elegant concept.

firefox? nah. bro got ICEFOX

The background is strangely hypnotising

I also made this exact thing like 2 days ago, but i didn't bother fixing the code to work for depth>3 (nobody actually plays anything over depth=2 becasu of the exponentional growth in time spent playing) And it's wild to me that the youtube algorythm somehow found and showed me this video. Great job btw

this thing is very cool man keep doing stuff, i like it

*@Colorize* 1:43 You should add a 3'rd marking, for Draws, so if you play "badly enough" the DRAW might win (i guess both players lose?) (I think the Draw symbol should be a green triangle, but maybe not?)

didn't have time to watch the whole vid so you might have said it, but do you have a download or a github repo where we can check this out? would love to try and play a couple games

Interesting coincidence. I was also just thinking about 3-tac-toe, and devised the exact same ruleset.

Criminally underrated.

yo this is actually sick

Wait, how did movement in depth 3 work? I'm not quite getting it yet.

I used to play Mega Tic Tac Toe (Depth 2) with my friends, but after deciding that was repetitive, I invented GIGA TIC TAC TOE (depth 3)

Ah, i know an enjoyer of mechanical keyboards when i hear it.

thanks for the tutorial!

So it seems recursive Naughts and Crosses is crazy enough so a board game with more than a 3x3 grid of squares would be crazy. I mean, imagine recursive chess, that game is long enough on a single layer, it would take a lifetime to complete if it was even 2 layers deep

You could make an online version where everyone is one of two teams and you play on a massive grid

I like the mechanic how you can influence what area the next move will be with your move. Is there a specific reason you implemented it, like did the game not work if players can always tic any box?

I need a phone app version, (preferably on iOS) maybe with a zoom function to show either the whole board or the play location

Im gonna spend years playing depth 6 Tic Tac Toe with a friend only to get a draw.

i remember vsauce making a short about this, but it was only level 2.

Wait, can i this? BEAUTIFUL!

I remember I played a game on steam called Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe several years ago, which had this level recursion mechanic. I don't think it went beyond depth 1 though.

how is your taskbar like that and the wallpaper moving??????

very interesting concept!

I like your video, good job. This is cool, I'm trying to learn python but I need to be mkre consistent. You have my sub

Ok, hear me out: 5D 3rd depth Tic Tac Toe with Multiverse Time Travel

definitely needs iterative animations, maybe log-ramping it as it goes on. Drawing each stroke, too. Fun little idea though

ULTIMATE ULTIMATE TIC TAC TOE

this is really underrated, but im just gonna ask how did you make your desktop background move and your task bar transparent?

Bravo man!

You shoukd do if a game ties it breaks down the one square into another recurse

Interesting concept, I've never sat down to play with this kind of ideas. Thanks for sharing the repository to take a look at it. Something else that catches my curiosity, could you share with me your animated wallpaper, It gives me a retro arcade room vibe. I'll send you my best regards.

ohhh dude i played depth 2 at school with a friend, we just called it tic tac toe 2, i honestly didnt expect to find a video on this

Sick!

What happens if the designated board for the next turn is already resolved? Like X has won the quadrant already, but a move on another square says we need to play there. What do you do?

this is so cool

Hey that looks like the tictactoe vsauce made a short on ! That's really cool! Did you get inspired or is it just a coincidence?

Neat project, I might force students to do something similar... time will tell

Cool concept and execution, but in future videos could you talk louder/increase the volume? Even with both my youtube and computer's volume sliders maxed out, I still had to turn on captions as I could not hear you. Thanks!

Neat stuff

nice work, by the way

That's awesome, I wonder are depth 2 and 3 are solved? i.e. is there a perfect strategy to never lose? like depth 1 (regular tic tac toe)

Depth 3 tic-tac-toe = soduku tic-tac-toe

I'd play this

Cool math games has entered the chat

press UP in the terminal :)

Great

I have yet to complete anything higher than the layer 3

You can press up arrow in CMD to repeat previous command

How do you have a moving background

I'd love to see the code!

I can see why u chose OOP for ur project

Cool game!

How did you do this this is amazing

depth ∞

that background tho

Epic

I tried to play depth 3 on paper one time but it took too long and we never finished

An interesting idea. Do you plan on releasing the source code?

It's so stupid I love it

cool desktop

Is the code for this project on github?

What an interesting proyect!, I remember playing with my friends tic tac toe with depth 2 XD But anyways, hoy did you manage to create that? Can you share us your code :0?

Depth 2 tic tac toe is actually a much better game than the original lol

Sick code!, (now make it 3d hehehe)

Now add 3D(or more if you want to)

JEREMY

depth 3 is just osu

content loudness -20.9dB 😭

TIC TAC TOE, STOP DOING MITOSIS

Chess 2.0

is the code anywhere

Make it so if one of the games is a tie it clears that square so you don't have to play multiple times as it will likely happen

Bro what is that color scheme