Anyone out there standing next to a nerd. I would like you to try a tic tac toe variant and tell me if it's interesting:
Kriegspiel tic tac toe
You can’t see your opponent’s moves. But, if you try to take a space they’re already on, you lose your turn, and the space they’ve taken is revealed. Goal remains 3 in a row.
@ZachWeinersmith Just tried it out and immediately ran into a snag: You can't play this on pen and paper without a referee to let you know whether you've tried to claim an occupied square or not.
@uastronomer So I think you could just have each side hide their personal board, then have a board in the middle. And assume nobody's lying :)
@uastronomer OH, wait, I see. OK, the game requires 3 people, or 2 people and a computer :D
@ZachWeinersmith @uastronomer here's a variant:
- the world is made of two 3×3 grids, each representing a player's home planet.
- the goal is to build a 3-cell long landing strip on the other player's planet.
- the game starts after each player placed two secret 1-cell military bases on their planet.
- each player in turn picks a position on the other planet where a piece a landing strip will be built unless it's occupied by a military base, in which case this fact is revealed immediately.
- the first player to complete a landing strip on the other planet wins.
This may be become more interesting with larger grids and more bases. Maybe the possibility of moving a base by one square on your own planet instead of a regular turn could be interesting.
