{"id":1468,"date":"2011-02-25T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2011-02-25T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:03:09","slug":"gambling-tic-tac-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/02\/25\/gambling-tic-tac-toe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling Tic-Tac-Toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.ku.edu\/~bstone\/\">Branden Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting game that was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.ku.edu\/~huneke\/\">Craig Huneke<\/a>.  As the title suggests, it is tic-tac-toe with a gambling component; you have to bid to play.  Here are the rules:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1. Each person has a set amount of money, say $1000 each.<br \/>\n2. The players then bid for the next move.<br \/>\n3. The loser of the bidding gets to make the first bid on the next move.<br \/>\n4. The game is over when one player has three in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of how the game might be played:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Player 1 bids $500 and player 2 concedes.<\/li>\n<li>Thus player 1 wins the turn and places an X on the center square.<\/li>\n<li>Since player 2 lost the last bid, player 2 gets to make the initial bid on the second move.<\/li>\n<li>Player 2 bids $100.<\/li>\n<li>Player 1 counters with $200 and player 2 concedes again, allowing player 1 to place another X on the board.<\/li>\n<li>Note, at this point player 1 has $300 an two X&#8217;s on the board while player 2 has $1000.<\/li>\n<li>Player 2 now bids $301 three times in a row to win the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As one can see, a bidding system added to ordinary tic-tac-toe makes the game a little more dynamic. &nbsp; An interesting exercise would be to determine the best strategy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Branden Stone This is an interesting game that was created by Craig Huneke. As the title suggests, it is tic-tac-toe with a gambling component; you have to bid to play. Here are the rules: 1. Each person has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/02\/25\/gambling-tic-tac-toe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/02\/25\/gambling-tic-tac-toe\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-math-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-nG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}