A terrible luck based guide that can hopefully help people on how to beat the tree in tic tac toe.
Making AI dumb.
Step 1. Put your plant far away from the first piece. (he will just make 2 in a row)
Step 2 Block his 3 in a row while threatening to make yours 3 in a row. (he will block it)
Now this is the hard part. The tree has essentially won here. But the magic about spreading out your pieces is that it makes the AI dumber (than usual) So just threaten him with two possible 3 in a row instead of blocking him (you can’t anyway). With any luck…
Step 3
The miracle happens. He blundered by putting his flower at the very top.
Step 4
Now just finish him off.