Weekly Challenge #8 - Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
For this challenge, you need to implement a program that plays the game of ultimate tic tac toe, a variant of tic tac toe where you play 9 smaller games to beat a larger meta game. The idea of this challenge is to play around writing a bot for a game which rules are simple to write but hard to master.
Winners:
- In first place, @seanyang0813 wins $100 with "Reinforcement Learning". Training machine learning models is all the rage those days, super cool to see that it was used to beat the Ultimate Tic Tac Toe game! https://github.com/Algorithm-Arena/weekly-challenge-8-ultimate-tic-tac-toe/issues/3
- In second place, @nikpundik wins $55 with "Monte Carlo". Really cool to see the use of a library that does the traversal customized to that specific game! https://github.com/Algorithm-Arena/weekly-challenge-8-ultimate-tic-tac-toe/issues/2
- In third place, @evgenyvinnik wins $30 with "PointerPointer". I did say that I was looking for creative solutions, I wasn't disappointed by this one! https://github.com/Algorithm-Arena/weekly-challenge-8-ultimate-tic-tac-toe/issues/1
Prizes:
- Winner: $100
- 2nd: $55
- 3rd: $30
Rules:
- The winners will be evaluated based on how creative and interesting the solution is. @vjeux has full discretion on how the winners are selected.
- Multiple people can work on a single submission. If it wins, the reward will be split based on the team preferences.
- If a winner doesn't want to take the money, it'll be reinjected in the next week prize pool.
- The solution must be open sourced.
- There are no restrictions in terms of tech stack.
How to submit a solution:
- Deadline to submit is Sunday March 10th evening at Midnight PST (US West Coast).
- Open an issue on this repo titled "Submission - <Name of your submission>"
- It must contain a short video showing the submission in action
- It must contain an explanation on how to try it
- It must contain a link with the source code