CSUN Algebra, Number Theory, and Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Pairing Strategies for Tic-Tac-Toe on the Boolean Hypercube

Eric Sundberg
Occidental College

Thursday    16 September 2021    2:00 pm–3:00 pm
via Zoom meeting

Abstract: We consider a tic-tac-toe-style game on the vertices of the n-dimensional Boolean hypercube {0, 1}n with k-dimensional subcubes as winning sets. We describe a pairing strategy which allows the second player to force a draw when k = n4 + 1 in the case where n is a power of 4.

(Based on joint work with Klay Kruczek and Ramin Naimi)