Thread: Tic tac toe (how do i check for winnner?)

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    Tic tac toe (how do i check for winnner?)

    Ok, i have my tic tac toe game almost complete, i just need a loop or if statement or both that checks if somebody won. My board is board[3][3]. HOw do i do this? Thanks

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    The easiest way would be lots of if statements.....
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    check for each possible victory condition.
    there are eight.
    2 diagonal, 3 horizontal, 3 vertical
    I think this should do it but I don't have a compiler here.

    bool CheckForWin( char board[3][3], char ch )
    {
    // check for diagonal cases
    if( ch == board[0][0] && ch == board[1][1] && ch == board[2][2] )
    return( true );
    if( ch == board[0][2] && ch == board[1][1] && ch == board[2][0] )
    return( true );

    // check for horizontal cases
    if( ch == board[0][0] && ch == board[0][1] && ch == board[0][2] )
    return( true );
    if( ch == board[1][0] && ch == board[1][1] && ch == board[1][2] )
    return( true );
    if( ch == board[2][0] && ch == board[2][1] && ch == board[2][2] )
    return( true );

    // check for vertical cases
    if( ch == board[0][0] && ch == board[1][0] && ch == board[2][0] )
    return( true );
    if( ch == board[0][1] && ch == board[1][1] && ch == board[2][1] )
    return( true );
    if( ch == board[0][2] && ch == board[1][2] && ch == board[2][2] )
    return( true );

    // not a win yet
    return( false );
    }

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    Well, checking all 8 cases is a viable option if you're dealing with a tic-tac-toe game, but one thing to consider is you could ALSO just write a function that checks if the last move made is in a line of 3 (i.e. is game-winning).

    For this game, it might be MORE work to do it like this, but if you wanted to program something like connect-4, you MUST check like this (see if each piece wins the game) because to try to check for every possible victory in a larger board wouldn't be viable.

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