2015-02-05

A boy in a blue shirt sits at a table across from his dad, who wears reflective sunglasses and holds a red pen. On the table is a sheet of paper with a tic-tac-toe grid drawn on it, plus a pencil. The boy complains: "Dad, I don't wanna play tic-tac-toe! It's always a tie!" The dad replies, "You're grounded if you don't start on a side square." A caption below reads: There is no such thing as a "solved game." The joke is the dad insisting his son play optimally-losing moves to keep the game un-tied. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the dad in sunglasses says, "Now, let's play rock-paper-scissors. You play rock." extending the bit to a game with no losing strategy by simply dictating his son's move.