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I forgot to mention that I was checking for a win after each turn. Thanks anyway.. it's probably my method that's wrong. It seemed right though

I'm wondering if there's actually a way to reverse the algorithm. The final AND mask which truncates it to 3 bytes is obviously lossy.. but there's many people smarter than me, so I do wonder if it's possible to reverse? I'd be fascinated at the way to reverse it, yet that would be spoiling the solu...

Since one space on the 9 space board is always taken by a 'O', there are 8 spaces to play, starting with 'X' taking the first turn. Due to there being 8 spaces and each space either being taken by 'X' or 'O', I decided to represent entire games as one byte, with equal numbers of zeroes and ones (bec...

I knew nothing of making a bot with C/C++ before yesterday. Look up libcurl if you're curious, it's really high level and easy to use. It will help you in some Web challenges too. I had a "perfect" bot going in 1 hour. The only problem was my code to say it had found the boss was bugged. S...