Answering Your Questions

Some of you may be wondering what this project is. Well I'm going to clear that up right now. Basically we are creating a computer type device that plays tic tac toe. How this works is we have 304 matchboxes. On each box there is one of the 304 tic tac toe combinations. We then fill each box with different color beads, each one representing a different move the computer could make. We then shake the matchbox and pull out a bead, but don't look so the color is random. We write down the move the color symbolizes in a tic tac toe grid and keep the bead on top of the matchbox. Then the person who is playing it takes their turn. This process is repeated until the game is over. Then we look at the matchboxes that have beads on top. For each win the computer gets we put three of the color beads on top in the matchbox, for each tie we put in one, and for each loss we take one away. What this does is practically increase the odds that the computer will pick a winning strategy. So basically the computer is learning with each game. Hopefully that cleared things up for most of you. If not, feel free to post a comment.