Generate a list of all unique Tic Tac Toe boards

Question

I would like to generate a text file containing all 19,683 Tic-Tac-Toe board layouts in the structure of 0 = Blank, 1 = X, and 2 = O. Unfortunately math is not my strong su

Answer 1

Since you want board layouts, there's only a small number of them (19683).

You can just brute-force generate all of these. Each box only has 3 possibilities. And there are 9 boxes, just run through all of them.

EDIT:

int c = 0;
while (c < 262144){
    bool valid = (c & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >>  2) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >>  4) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >>  6) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >>  8) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >> 10) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >> 12) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >> 14) & 3) < 3;
    valid &= ((c >> 16) & 3) < 3;

    if (valid){
        int i = c;
        int j = 0;
        while (j < 9){
            cout << (i & 3) << " ";
            i >>= 2;
            j++;
        }
        cout << endl;
    }

    c++;
}

This will print out all 19,683 board layouts. I'm not sure what format you want, but it should be fairly easy to extract that from the output.