Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 09, 2024

If you’ve played Battle Chess, you’ve played regular chess.

Circular unicorns are vey rare. Though apparently flexible ones aren’t quite as rare. Of course, unicorns aren’t very thick on the ground regardless of shape.

They couldn’t just draw X’s and O’s like they did with the grid?

They also gamble on it.

Much better than the cow-pie games they play here!

That’s one way to play ‘Noughts and Crosses’, I doubt the cross position is suitable for extended napping though if the game goes on for too long.

Unicorns are more numerous than I thought!

Never cross a unicorn.

Live tic tac toe. Interesting concept. Similar to Live chess. (and no, not Mel Brookes version either. (cough))

Cool! I’ve never seen so many unicorns!

Nobody show Marigold the ‘Checkmate’ episode of The Prisoner.

I’M INTERESTED.

If they’re following the human rules, whoever’s next can win this turn. If it’s X, take the upper left corner. If it’s O, take the lower right.

Thing I learned today: Unicorns are bad at tic tac toe.

Kind of a cross between tic tac toe and Twister.

It’s not that they use their bodies, it’s HOW they get the bodies in those positions. Also (don’t tell the kids) unicorns find those positions — no, I won’t say it… [blushes].

Unless it’s X’s turn, O’s have the easy win.

I wonder what they call a tie?

Unicorn Tic-Tac-Toe is the best. I’ll never want to play boring old ordinary Tic-Tac-Toe ever again.

X in the upper left corner for the win!

I want to see unicorn 3D tic-tac-toe.

The unicorns don’t know how to play Tic-Tac-Toe. If the first play is to the center, the only response is the corner. Otherwise whoever took the center can force the win.

What happened to finding out why Marigold’s sister was in an old picture with Phoebe? How did we get from there to tic-tac-toe?

Do you want to play a game?

This is great!