Qubic

Qubic is a four-in-a-row game played in a 4×4×4 matrix. Players alternately place pieces to get four in a row. The first player will win if there are two optimal players. There are 76 winning lines. It is weakly solved by Patashnik (1980) and then strongly solved by Victor Allis.

See also

• Unit cubic
• Connect Four

References

• 0. Patashnik, Qubic: 4 x 4 x 4 Tic-Tac-Toe, Mathematical Magazine 53 (1980) 202216
• L.V. Allis, P.N.A. Schoo, Qubic solved again, in: H.J. van den Herik, L.V. Allis (Eds.), Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 3: The Third Computer Olympiad. Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1992, pp. 192–204.