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The GAMESMAN system is a piece of software 35 years in the making -- it solves board games (2-person abstract strategy games of no chance), builds a database of the value (win, tie, or lose) for every position, and provides users with a GUI to play and analyze them. We recently opened up the API to allow any external client to access our database. At Snap!Con 2023 I demoed a Snap! program that played one-player Tic-Tac-Toe perfectly (the computer makes the moves for the second player) using our back-end as the "brains". The user specified their moves by clicking on a slot on the 3x3 board with their mouse.

For this year's Snap!Shot 2024 I added the ability to play 2-player Tic-Tac-Toe on a physical board, with a webcam recording the moves and Snap! displaying the value of the moves [from a stoplight: red=losing, yellow=tying, green=winning] for the player whose turn it is. You need blue and red pieces (poker chips work great), and blue (X) goes first.

• Demo: https://youtu.be/iV5MFALQObc
• Snap! project: https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=dan%20garcia&ProjectName=Gamesman%20AR%20for%20TicTacToe
• Tic-Tac-Toe board: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mwvdpbbvvqgjlz81ng3cn/Tic-Tac-Toe-AR.pdf?rlkey=520myvv8e9s334sejukk6ddv5&dl=0