FAQ: Minimax - Detecting Tic-Tac-Toe Leaves

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Detecting Tic-Tac-Toe Leaves” exercise from the lesson “Minimax”.

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Another example of terrible directions.

At the bottom of script.py , create a function called game_is_over() that takes a board as a parameter. The function should return True if the game is over and False otherwise.

But this isn’t what the solution addresses, it wants to know if a specific player has won. Please don’t set your users up for failure. It’s frustrating.

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Hi, I had a similar view while trying to figure out the solutions. But in the moment of writing a similar query, realized that there can be a scenario where player x has won but there are still moves left, in that case just having the available_moves condition wont be correct.
Imagine this: X and O are marked alternatively by 2 players. Using a classic trick, x marks the 3 corners of the grid resulting in 2 cases, one of them for sure results in player X winning. There are still moves left but the game is over
[“X”, “2”, “O”],

[“O”, “O”, “6”],

[“X”, “X”, “X”]

Hope this helps :smiley:
Cheers,
Kabir

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