Tic-tac-toe doesn’t have much of a rep. Sure, it’s a simple, brief distraction from the monotony of existence, but once your 8-year-old self realizes that you can always force a draw, it loses its ...

Up to equivalence, there aren’t nine distinct opening moves. There are only three. If it isn’t immediately clear to you what “up to equivalence” means here, I urge you to try and figure it out ...

Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of ...

Ron Bergan, a longtime Fargo entrepreneur, plays the latest game he invented, “Tic Stack Toe,” with his neighbors Harper, A.Z. and Sloan. The game is available locally.