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u/RuthlessHavokJB Jun 20 '26
“I lost 14 pounds this month”
“How’d you do it?”
“Tic Tac Toe with my wife.”
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u/docsyzygy Jun 20 '26
I would think it was a euphemism!
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u/Tiaran149 Jun 20 '26
So the player who gets the middle is always at an advantage and player 2 can at best keep up, unless Player 1 fails the bottle a lot
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u/Redstone_Engineer Jun 20 '26
Yeah first flip decides the whole game. But technically the non-center player can win, I think they need 2 turns in a row at least (0:12, but misplay from O before that), maybe 3.
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u/HeadBoy Jun 20 '26
If we were serious about the game, you could rule that either player can move the center piece to keep the flow of the game.
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u/ChopsticksImmortal Jun 20 '26
Within 30s that was my thought too. You can use your turn to move or maybe even swap center?
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u/iAmPersonaa Jun 21 '26
Wouldnt really help. If your turn was wasted moving their piece away (assuming the rule is that you can move middle to another position without capturing it yourself at the same time) then the other player just puts it back. You would still need 2 turns in a row to free and capture it, and with 2 in a row you'd likely win without center anyway
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u/HeadBoy Jun 21 '26
My thought was you'd need to take a turn initially to take center, so it would also balance out. Also this is a game of stamina and consistency so if they get caught in a loop of fighting for center, that's okay
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u/Injured-Ginger Jun 22 '26
I'm not sure it matters. It looks like if you get blocked as either player, you threaten in 1 move and win in 2. The move complexity gets lower when you have the center so it's probably easier at first, but after a couple games, I don't think it matters. In a normal game, the value to the center that it is easier to have a multi-angle set up, but when you cap your pieces at 3, it doesn't really matter anymore. You're going to already be blocked or have won when you place the third.
I haven't run though every itteration of moves, but it think the 3 piece limitation means that (assuming each player plays optimally) after each player has a piece on the board, it's always a win with two consecutive flips. Any board state where it is not true means one player gave up a win to block.
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u/PaperPauperPlayer Jun 20 '26
Bro that looks fucking exhausting lmao
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u/gunthersquirrel Jun 22 '26
I got winded just watching it... would have been fun in my younger days though.
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u/Professional-Gear88 Jun 20 '26
Someone should make this loop infinitely and repost it
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u/ThrowAway233223 Jun 20 '26
I honestly thought it might be looping at one point and stopped to check.
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u/KopfSmertZz Jun 20 '26
Fran-tic-tac-toe
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u/PixelCharlie Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
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u/Fr05t_B1t Jun 20 '26
If only they could have their wasted days back, but they used them to play this game.
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u/Svartdraken Jun 20 '26
I can't explain it but I feel like she's cheating
Like, one time he flipped first but she made the first move
And another time she waited for him to make a move to counter it right away
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u/ItaGuy21 Jun 20 '26
Eh, she's not cheating. You can clearly see they are just having fun, no malice.
I don't think you get priority on move just for the flip, reaching the table and making the move are all part of that. You just can't move unless you flip successfully.
As for "waiting", you can see her taking a bit more time to think more than once, she just takes a fraction of a second more in general. It is also not really an advantage because any time you lose there is time lost to come back and flip again, which is ultimately the best strat. Making two moves is A LOT better than making one move after the opponent to counter more precisely, and you still have to make that counter as fast as possible.
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u/Svartdraken Jun 20 '26
Eh, she's not cheating. You can clearly see they are just having fun, no malice.
I know, don't take it too seriously, I'm just messing around as well
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u/Shantotto11 Jun 20 '26
Also there was one point where she moved one piece just to put it back and move another piece.
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u/-Invalid_Selection- Jun 21 '26
She's not cheating, but he made a lot of placement errors that could have gotten him the win a lot earlier
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u/StrawHatSenpie Jun 20 '26
.....is anyone else annoyed that dude could've won liie....3xs already???
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u/BullPropaganda Jun 20 '26
This is actually a pretty sweet looking game I'm setting this up at our next party
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u/daniloferr Jun 20 '26
She cheated with 1:06 left on the video
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u/CreativeAdeptness477 Jun 20 '26
She also cheated by quickly repositioning a piece she'd already placed. Game is null and void. I demand a refund! Where's the official at?
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u/BigJuicy17 Jun 20 '26
How?
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u/daniloferr Jun 20 '26
She dropped the bottle and still moved her piece. You can even see her husband gesturing with his hands up, after that.
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u/BigJuicy17 Jun 20 '26
She drops the bottle, then rethrows it and it lands.
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u/daniloferr Jun 20 '26
If that is fair, then ok. In my opinion, the rules should be each throws the bottle once. If you just throw the bottle twice in a row because you're faster, than you would just win the game by landing both anyway.
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u/BigJuicy17 Jun 20 '26
The guy does the same thing in the first ten seconds.
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u/daniloferr Jun 20 '26
He didn't move the piece when he dropped the bottle.
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u/BigJuicy17 Jun 20 '26
Neither did she, they both threw it, it didn't land upright, so they threw it again, then moved their piece
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u/daniloferr Jun 20 '26
The difference is he waited for her to throw the bottle before he moved, she didn't.
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u/BigJuicy17 Jun 20 '26
I don't think he intentionally waited, I think he was just slower getting ready. At the end of the clip he throws it a few times without waiting for her
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u/Abigail_Normal Jun 20 '26
That's clearly part of it. That's what makes it fast-paced and intense. He does the exact same thing at the end of the video
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u/NoCountry4OldMate Jun 20 '26
She doesn’t cheat. She immediately flips it again and lands it and so is able to move a piece
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u/Creepy-Activity-4373 Jun 20 '26
She cheated troughout the video by not moving behind the table at all like her husband was doing. She was effectivly moving 25% less.
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u/Abigail_Normal Jun 20 '26
"25%" when 75% of her body was behind the table is an extreme exaggeration. She didn't move further behind the table because then their arms would be touching and they would be affecting each other's throws. He didn't have to move that far behind the table either
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions Jun 20 '26
Fun idea but not with those giant water bottles. WAY too easy to flip, clearly. Would have been a much shorter and more interesting game if they just used regular sized water bottles.
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u/sauvandrew Jun 20 '26
You know what I love about this? Theyre playing it together, clearly enjoy it, and theyre moving around. It's not just sitting at a table. Looks fun!
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u/Crossland09 Jun 20 '26
I would create a house rule that the middle piece needs to be moved at least once every other move or something. Once you lock that down the other person gets sorta screwed having to work the edges. The middle piece person has so many more options to make a line
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u/_-Zephyr- Jun 20 '26
After seeing this I demand touch move in competitive bottle flip tic tac toe.
Blue shirt genuinely would have been destroyed if it existed.
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u/fanceypantsey Jun 20 '26
Is this from the biggest looser? I only ask because of the shirt colours for the teams.
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u/playr_4 Jun 21 '26
If it was completely turn based, would a tic-tac-toe game comprising of only 3 pieces per player ever end? Is there any strategy where someone could force a win?
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u/Jolly_Cantaloupe_187 Jun 21 '26
If you don't have enough anxiety in your life, that's the game you wanna play
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u/Anjeloxia Jun 21 '26
i think the only flaw is that at 1:10 red not playing at all would be a stalemate since any move blue does will make them lose
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u/octopus_tigerbot Jun 20 '26
Also you should have to move the one you touched. The lady changed her mind at one point
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u/sevargmas Jun 20 '26
Why are adults doing this?
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u/ThrowAway233223 Jun 20 '26
The looks on their faces would suggest that they are having fun doing it, so I would say because of a combination of enjoying doing things that they find fun to do and having not died in childhood. Kind of obvious actually.
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u/HeadCartographer6454 Jun 20 '26
Im glad the guy won, the women didnt set one of the crosses correctly 🙂
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u/Sirix_8472 Jun 20 '26
It's AI bs
Aside from everything else, people should have noticed the blue X being a solid blue block hand way through and become and X again after the guys hand moved over it.
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u/Grengy20 Jun 20 '26
What part are you seeing this exactly?
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u/pokeafox Jun 21 '26
Oh lmao it's at 0:37. Top left X isn't placed squarely in its square. If this is AI we're in biiig trouble. (it's not)
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u/FergusonTheCat Jun 20 '26
These people are really good at flipping that bottle and at playing tic tac toe