Patent ID: 7335098

Claim:
A Video Tic-Tac-Toe game encoded within DVD compatible media played in a 3×3 Tic-Tac-Toe game grid using any DVD-Video playing device allowing a person to view the said grid on a video viewing device and select an individual token position to be occupied in the said grid via DVD menus after which said selection results in an animated transition during which a single opposing token position is automatically and optimally placed, so as never to give the person playing a chance to win, into the said grid and is animated to reposition the said grid in virtual 3-D space by visually animating the said grid via flipping and/or rotating the resulting pattern of tokens in the said grid, while the said tokens are kept centered at their relative positions within the grid, into a unique pattern orientation so only symmetrically unique patterns of tokens are encoded into the game as corresponding to individual unique DVD menus each of which represents a unique state of the game and for which each said unique state of the game allows a person to select from the remaining unoccupied positions of each said unique DVD menu until either the placement of opposing tokens results in 3 opposing tokens in a row, column or along a diagonal through the said grid indicating that the person playing has lost the game and by animating each said loss by highlighting the opposing tokens which caused the loss, or by there being only a single open token position remaining after which placement by the person playing will not result in either set of tokens representing a said loss, will cause an animated transition which places the said grid back to its original state of being empty and thus allowing the game to be repeated by forming a closed loop set of DVD menus and animated menu transitions which accounts for every conceivable path of game execution and minimizes the number of DVD menus needed to 30 or less.