4D Tic Tac Toe

Author: Andrew

  • Vertical 3D Styles

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    Until now, all 3D Styles have been arranged horizontally across the page. While this works well on laptops and desktops, it’s less convenient on phones or tablets, where screens are typically taller than they are wide. In the 3D game, there are three grids—and there’s no real reason they must be displayed side by side.…

  • Scoring-Lines

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    Sometimes when my opponent makes a move, I realise that I overlooked one or more of their scoring lines, even though I could see the obvious ones. So I thought it might be useful to create a page where all the scoring lines could be explored. It seemed like a fairly simple addition, and potentially…

  • Inside the 3D Game

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    How does the cubic 3D game work under the hood? Perhaps it’s not very interesting, but I thought you might like to know. I had an early version of the 4D game going okay. So in order to make the 3D game I made a copy of 4D and set it up to play on…

  • Replay

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    Announcing the new Replay facility that allows you to replay any 3D or 4D game from the ‘Game Over’ page, or later from its web address (URL) if you bookmarked it. On the ‘Game Over’ page under the board there is now a little replay symbol you can click. ⟲ Also you can replay a…

  • Cheat Sheet

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    Congratulations – you’ve found it! During the first moves of a game it helps to go for the squares that might benefit you most later on. But which squares are those? To find out, go to the setup page of a game and in the Address Bar of your browser remove the ‘?’ and anything…

  • Loads of new Styles

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    I have just uploaded ten new 4D Styles which I hope you will enjoy. They are Fish, Grids, HighVis, Ocean, Orange, Paper, Reddy, Stadium, Terminal and White. I think this has made for a more fun selection. I’ve also added a ‘White’ style to the 3D game. There’s an awful lot of files involved and…

  • Version 2.5 released

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    This version allows the use of images as well as the ‘X’ and ‘O’ characters for the tokens used on the board. This helps when the space character is very narrow. Some Styles have thus been improved. Also Version 2.5 has support for a Replay facility (upcoming) so you will be able to replay either…

  • Font Issue Rethink

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    The main ‘font’ issue (previous ‘Font Issues’ post) is that the empty (space) character in most fonts is too narrow so it can be difficult to click in an empty square. I have been unable to find more than a couple of suitable monospaced fonts, so they are no help. Enter Version 2.5 (upcoming) in…

  • Version 2.4 Released

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    If you use an old bookmark containing an unavailable Style, this version lets you choose from the existing styles, rather than giving a ‘Style Not Found’ error and setting your style to ‘Plain’. (We don’t like such errors, do we?) There was also some minor tidying up of the code in the background for maintainability.…

  • Tesseract

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    The new phone-sized 4D game. On a small phone screen the main site sometimes doesn’t render well and it can be difficult to arrange things so the game is playable. The board is square and sometimes doesn’t render well in the size of a small rectangular screen. So I thought I’d make a game for…