32 entries in Games / Tic Tac Toe
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
R. G. Kraus Tic Tac Toe - A Super Mental Stunt preventing spectator to win game, without looking
1946
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1946)
27
George Schindler Tic-Tac-Toe prediction of a field
Sep. 1949
The Phoenix (Issue 186)
743
Don Costello, Dai Vernon, Martin Gardner The Tit-Tat-Toe Trick Packet of nine cards used to play tic-tac-toe with a spectator (face up and down cards). Finale is revealed that the result is a magic square, each row/column/diagonal adds up to fifteen
Related toVariations 1956 28
Tony Corinda (10) Blindfold "Noughts and Crosses" assistant plays tic-tac-toe blindfolded
1958 155
P. Howard Lyons Noughty Crosses prediction
Related to July 1959
Ibidem (Issue 17)
20
Steve Shimm Game-Playing Machines article about simple computer programs applied to (card) games
  • Banker And Broker (cutting the high card)
  • The Tic-Tac-Toe Machine
  • Computer At The Card Table
  • The Machine As Innovator
Related to Nov. 1969
Epilogue (Issue 7)
52
Ken De Courcy Cross Check
1975 15
Tic Tac Toe Bet with red and black cards
1975 17
Karl Fulves Tic Tac Toe Machine problem of winning
1980
Interlocutor (Issue 43)
171
Johnny Thompson Polish Epic
Inspired by
  • "Mental Epic" (Hen Fetsch)
Related to
  • "Twin Prediction Miracle" (The New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mentalism, Vo. 2)
Also published here
1981 23
Richard Osterlind Predic-Tac-Toe ending of tic tac toe game is predicted
Apr. 1982
Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 4)
620
Philip T. Goldstein All for Nought tic tac toe prediction
Related to Aug. 1982
Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 5)
1040
The Marrakech Game No. 35, numbers on 3x3 square used for variation of Tic Tac Toe
Related to 1983 60
Karl Fulves Tri Hex "Penny Papers", game with coins related to Tic Tac Toe
1985 71
Tic-Tac-Toe prediction of outcome, author saw the effect "twenty years ago in an American TV show, performed by Mark Wilson"
1987
Magische Blätter (Vol. 1 No. 10)
3
Karl Fulves Tic Stax Toe using cards to indicate which square has to be used next, Eight Kings or Si Stebbins stack
Related to 1993
Verbatim (Issue 7)
68
Bob Farmer Texas Rose
  • Flim-Flam
winning strategy for tic tac toe
Feb. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 6)
53
Karl Fulves Strip Tac Toe using number cards to indicate which square has to be used next
Related to 1994
Rigmarole (Issue 7)
80
Tic-Tac-Toe No. 46, card values decide where to place the 0 or X
1995 88
Bev Bergeron Child's Play prediction of outcome of a Tic Tac Toe game
1995
Syzygy (Vol. 1 No. 11)
45
Bob Farmer Face-Up Blackjack
  • Flim-Flam
Also published here Aug. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 12)
80
Karl Fulves Little Blue "machine version of tic tac toe" using calculator
1998 52
Karl Fulves Blue Streak "machine version of tic tac toe" using calculator
  • Blue Notes
1998 55
Karl Fulves Trick Tac Toe using calculator, deck of cards and die
1998 58
Karl Fulves Pik Tac Toe on 4x4 layout
Variations 2001 160
"Joro" Bruno Hennig Tic-Tac-Toe prediction of outcome
2004 45
Robert E. Neale Draw For The Devil nine cards, performer and spectator alternately put them in a 3x3 square à la Tic Tac Toe, a magic square for six results
Inspired by 2006
Prolix (Issue 2)
85
Bob Farmer Face-Up Blackjack
VariationsAlso published here 2015 347
Áriston Ta-Te-Ti packet of nine cards used to play tic-tac-toe with a spectator (face up and down cards). Finale is revealed that the result is a magic square, each row/column/diagonal adds up to fifteen
Inspired by 2017 146
Johnny Thompson Polish Epic
Also published here 2018 163
Martin Gardner Tic Tac Toe Force
Related to 2018 164
Martin Gardner Tic-Tac-Toe Magic Square tic tac toe with cards, resulting in a magic square
Jan. 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 1)
59