Implant Intelligence
Home: pick a board and a mode
About
A take on Tic-Tac-Toe where each move reshapes what can follow. Foresight beats fast clicking.
I came across this family of games in Ben Orlin's Math with Bad Drawings, in a story about mathematicians in Berkeley hooked on an ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe played across nested boards. Forced Move is my version of it.
What you get
- Play in the browser for Web
- Source code for Run it yourself
Features
Solo against the CPU
Five levels, from gentle to unforgiving.
Play with a friend
Create a game, share the id and token, play live. The server checks every move.
Adjacent Lock
Your move picks the cells your opponent may use next.
Nested boards
Win a mini-board to claim a cell on the big one.
Accessible
Keyboard play, screen-reader labels, high contrast, dark and light, warm or cool palettes.
Play it here
The server sleeps when idle, so the first load can take up to a minute.
Requirements
- Any modern browser
- Multiplayer needs an internet connection
Privacy
The game stores nothing about you. Multiplayer passes a game id and a token between the two players and the server.
Questions
Is there an Android app?
A Play Store build is being prepared. Not published yet.
Why is the first load slow?
The demo runs on a free hosting tier that sleeps when idle.
Music: Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0. Applause clip from Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Artwork by the author, CC0.
