Nine boards nested in one — every move sends your opponent somewhere.
🕹️Comment jouer
- 1Choose your mode: vs Computer (AI) or vs Friend (same device).
- 2X goes first and may play in any of the 9 small boards.
- 3Whichever cell you play in sends your opponent to the matching board next — play the center cell, they must play in the center board.
- 4Win a small board by getting 3 of your marks in a row inside it — that claims the board on the grand 3x3 meta-board.
- 5Win 3 boards in a row on the grand board to win the whole game.
📋Règles du jeu
- ▸If the board you send your opponent to is already won or full, they may play in any open board instead.
- ▸A small board that fills up with no 3-in-a-row is a draw and is removed from play — it counts for neither side on the grand board.
- ▸If every board is decided and nobody has 3 boards in a row, the whole game is a draw.
- ▸Scores and your win streak persist until you reset them from the menu.
💡Conseils
- ★Before playing a cell, always ask where it sends your opponent — a "good" local move that opens a board they can win is often a bad move overall.
- ★The center and corner boards sit on more of the grand board's winning lines than the edge boards — contesting them early is usually worth it.
- ★Avoid completing a small board with your last move in it unless you've checked that the board you're sending your opponent to is safe.
- ★A drawn small board removes itself from both players' winning lines — sometimes forcing a draw in a board you were about to lose is a good defensive move.
ℹ️À propos
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe was popularized online in the early 2010s as an answer to the fact that classic Tic-Tac-Toe is a solved, always-drawable game between two players who know what they're doing. Nesting nine boards inside one adds a real layer of strategy: the move that determines where your opponent gets sent next is often more important than whether you win the local board at all. Winning a small board with your very last available cell, for instance, might force your opponent into a board where they have no good options — while winning a different small board carelessly can hand them a free move into a board they were hoping for. The game has no known perfect solution the way flat Tic-Tac-Toe does, which is exactly why it stays interesting.