Teleport-Tac-Toe

I hatched another business card board game idea today. It's Tic-Tac-Toe with an inter-dimensional twist. The mock-up above shows what would be the back of the business card. One player plays dimes, the other pennies. Each turn the player can either play a new piece or move an existing one. Pieces can only be played on white squares. The goal is to get three in a row, but one of those three has to be on the center square.

The teleportation element is that the board acts like a Pac-Man screen, wrapping around. A piece can thus be moved from the top left to the top right, or from the top left to the bottom left, and so on. I'm imagining two possibilities for gameplay: first, that teleporting into a blank space could capture enemy pieces if they are surrounded on at least two sides. This would remove the piece from play (though the player could play it back in a new empty space). The other option is that you could teleport into occupied spaces, but only if you could slide the occupying piece into a blank space in the same direction of travel. That sounds confusing, but I'll illustrate it once I've played it out a few times. Also, until testing, I have no idea if this is going to be fun or not. It may be too solvable, just like regular tic-tac-toe. We'll see.

Last but not least, if this game makes the cut, I'll definitely want to re-brand it in a way that removes the tic-tac-toe references. When I think of that game I think solvable, impossible to win, uninteresting. It'll be "Space Cargo Embargo" or something.