{"id":16807,"date":"2024-10-01T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/?p=16807"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:01:19","slug":"puzzle-generation-for-ultimate-tic-tac-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/?p=16807","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Generation for Ultimate-Tic-Tac-Toe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maj Zirkelbach and Aleksander Sadikov<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<br \/>Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is an interesting and popular variant of Tic-Tac-Toe that lacks available resources for improving gameplay skills. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic system for generating puzzles as a part of a larger tutorial application aimed at teaching Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe. The puzzles are designed to enhance players\u2019 tactical and strategic understanding by presenting game scenarios where they must identify correct continuations.<br \/>To ensure the quality of generated puzzles we tested the application with a group of volunteers. The results have shown that the number of solved puzzles positively impacted users\u2019 ability<br \/>to reach higher strength levels but had less of an effect on lower levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SCAI_2024_paper_7299.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of SCAI_2024_paper_7299.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-183965fd-3646-4b74-9ad7-de7b8e61438a\" href=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SCAI_2024_paper_7299.pdf\">SCAI_2024_paper_7299<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/SCAI_2024_paper_7299.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-183965fd-3646-4b74-9ad7-de7b8e61438a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":24966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doi-skui-2024","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16809,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions\/16809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}