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3D Tic Tac Toe

3D Tic Tac Toe 1953

Design Woodrow Arthur Heacock , William Spyker , Herbert B. Swift Art (Uncredited) Publisher (Unknown)
4.3 /10
BGG rating
#31025
BGG rank
1.2
Weight
2
Players
2
Best at
1
Minutes
6
Age
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About the Game

Trimula appears to be an implementation of 3D Noughts and Crosses. It looks from the box that it was released sometime in the early 70s. The contents consists of a clear plastic 3D game board which can be assembled and disassembled at will, and a more than adequate number of large glass marbles in two colours. However whilst it is a game in a 3 x 3 x 3 matrix, it has very different win conditions to Tic Tac Toe in that the player with the most row of 3, when the pawns are all played, wins.

There are a number of other such games where the players use 3 boards arranged to yield 27 playing positions.

Filed Under

Categories
Abstract Strategy
Mechanics
Pattern Building Pattern Recognition Set Collection
Also known as
3 Dimensional Tik Tak Toe · 3D Tac-Tics · 3Dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe · Arlac Trimula · Estres · Plato · Plato's Game · Tac-Tic-On · TIC TAC TOE 3D · Tic-Tac-Toe in 3 Dimensions · Tic-Tacs · Tri Tac Toe …
BGG ratings
130 · geek rating 5.44
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026