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empath75last Sunday at 11:36 AM1 replyview on HN

You can build a machine that plays perfect tic-tac-toe with 300 matchboxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...


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Tachyooonyesterday at 2:18 AM

The first time I heard of it was in this Matt Parker video where he helped do this with a school-sized group of kids [0]. An "AI player" made of matchboxes, run by schoolkids, is a fantastically fun idea.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU