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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent kid's game,
By viktor_57 "viktor_57" (Fairview, Your Favorite State, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tic Tac Toe Shot Glasses by Studio Silversmiths
As a mathematician, game theorist, and proud Chi Omicron Chi (XOX, aka "Xocks") brother, I have always been interested in this the simplest of m,n,k games, i.e. games in which players alternate placing markers on an m x n board with each player trying to place k of his or her markers in a row. As every game theorist knows, perfect tic-tac-toe play by both players results in a tie game every time, with neither player achieving victory. The clever child will figure this out on her own, as I did at an early age, and I lost interest in playing tic-tac-toe before I turned five. I never lost interest, however, in studying tic-tac-toe and similar games, which began my pursuit of mathematics and game theory, and partly accounts for my joining Chi Omicron Chi as a college freshman. As part of our initiation, pledges had to play a modified form of tic-tac-toe with vodka-filled shot glasses for markers. Each player had five glasses, and as he placed his marker, he would empty his glass. The loser would drink the remaining shot glasses. Most of us knew how to play perfect games of tic-tac-toe, so really the point of the game, as with most fraternity games, was to see who could best hold his liquor. I do remember one unfortunate pledge, Bob, who never figured out how to play perfect tic-tac-toe and nearly drank himself into catatonia.
All these thoughts came rushing, so to speak, back to me when I saw the "Shot Glasses Tic-Tac-Toe" available for so reasonable a price at about a dollar per component. I have a four-year-old son who has yet to perfect his tic-tac-toe game, so I bought this set to educate him. We play the same way I did in the Xocks fraternity house. Of course I don't give him pure vodka in his shot glasses; he only weighs 35 lbs. As 35 lbs represents approximately a fifth of my own weight, I dilute his vodka in a 1-to-4 dilution with orange juice. I know what you're thinking: what happens when he loses and must finish off the remaining shot glasses, including mine? I am nothing if not fair, so when he loses, I give him an equivalent amount of diluted vodka to however much pure vodka I have remaining in my shot glasses. Since I, knowing how to play perfect tic-tac-toe, never lose to my son, the reverse problem, my having to drink his remaining shots, never occurs. My son loses more often than not, and he usually ends up walking into walls, falling down, and later becoming violently sick. You would think all this negative reinforcement would promote rapid and forceful mastery of tic-tac-toe, but his cognitive development must be lacking. I can only surmise that the time delay between his losing tic-tac-toe games and the negative effects of alcohol poisoning inhibits his forming the negatively reinforcing connections. He still loves to play, however, but his game, if anything, seems to be getting worse, almost as if he is trying to lose.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get It While You Can,
By Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME) When I'm bored or restless I pull out my mirror tray and line up the shot glasses one by one, fitting them into the X and O pattern of dear posterity. You can do it with a partner, or you can do it all my your ownsome. Sometimes I move, or lurch, to a chair on the other side of the card table and pretend I'm playing the Xs, I sneer at my formerly visible self across the width of the table and I place my X firmly into its square, being sure to have downed my full shot of aquavit or Grolsch's or just plain Tab energy drink before touching glass to mirror. In this way a full half hour could pass and you're totally amused the whole time. Perfect for a long summer night in the hammock, or for teaching a toddler the elements of Tic Tac Toe, providing you make sure to feed the little one shots of, I don't know, milk or Hawaiian punch. It's a game most kids really can get into, indeed down at the barber I go to I see some youths with the outline of the game shaven into their scalps. They call it the Tic Tac "fade." With the growing popularity of Sudoku I expect that Studio Silvermsiths might respond by retooling all their Tic Tac Toe shot glass sets to Sudoku numbers, so get this one while you can, before it goes all 'collectible' on your ass. The workmanship is sublime; Benvenuto Cellini could not have constructed a finer shot glass. And the tray is worthy of Paul Revere's factory.
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