Tic Tac Toe

[HS Thomas]

In this special Tic Tac Toe, three in a row loses!
You are playing the O's and it is your turn.
What move can you make to force your opponent to end up with three X's in a row, so he loses?

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                        __x_|__x__|_o__
                        __o_|_____|____
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regards
[ September 09, 2003: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[Jason Menard]

It looks like putting the 'O' in either bottom corner will work.

[Michael Dunn]

Looks like bottom left.
Middle blocks the XXX
Either of the rights, if X then goes bottom left, O has to block the XXX or end up with OOO

[Jason Menard]

Yeah, it looks like Michael is right. I wasn't paying cloes enough attention.

[HS Thomas]

Shall we try and see:

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                        __o_|_____|____
                          O |  x  |
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Your move. Sorry don't know what I was thinking. That is the answer.
regards
[ September 10, 2003: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]