The 4 Letter Word

     This week we had to redevelop "Tic Tac Toe" for the class.Mulled over three ideas, the "Cat Game", the "4 Letter Word", and the "Cards Down". In the end I decided on "4 Letter" one, but I will go over all three ideas because I still may develop the other ones.

1. The Cat Game
The idea is based of how every TTT game ends the same way with the cat winning, this game would use a 3rd NPC player the "cat" that would mimic the players move and create a possible "lose" state for the player. If the player's reflected move resulted in a 3 in a row for the cat then the other player would get a Cat Win. You could also use the reflected move to block the other player.

2. Cards Down
This idea is based off off a board like game using a play off a center piece. All the pieces are cards and in the start each player is dealt 7 and then one is drawn and placed in the center of the 5x5 board. The players have to build off the center piece to try and get the biggest had...2-pair, 3 of a kind, 21, full house, flush...etc

3.The Four Letter Word
Basically this is the game I went with. The skinny is take turns placing letter on the board until one person spells a 3-4 letter word.  If the player spells a 3 letter word then the next player has a shot to turn it in to a 4 letter word. Players have to alternate between vowel and consonant, and they cannot use a letter more than once. The letter Y can be used as either vowl or consonant.

There you have it, hopefully I will have some test runs done to see if the other two may be worth trying out.