Carl G Bowden

US Patent:

42754429, Jun 23, 1981

Filed:

Jul 2, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/053905

Inventors:

Johnny P. Underwood - Waxahachie TX
Carl G. Bowden - Waxahachie TX

International Classification:

G06F 1544

US Classification:

364410

Abstract:

Electronic tic-tac-toe game (10) includes a display board (12) having a tic-tac-toe array (14) printed on the display. The tic-tac-toe game (10) controls the electronic display of the selected "X's" (16) and "O's" (18) on display board (12). A game mode select switch (30) enables the game (10) to be played in the solitary mode of operation against a microprocessor (130) programmed to play tic-tac-toe or in a dual mode of operation between two players. In the dual mode of operation, players may electronically select their game symbols which then appear in player displays (20) and (22). A switch (28) enables the microprocessor (130) to control the time allotted for the microprocessor (130) to select a move in the solitary mode of operation or to limit the time the opposing player has to move in the dual mode of operation. Microprocessor (130) accumulates the wins for each player and displays these wins in total wins displays (24) and ( 26).