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Azar and Carl play a game of tic-tac-toe. Azar places an in XX one of the boxes in a 3×33 \times 3 array of boxes, then Carl places an OO in one of the remaining boxes. After that, Azar places an XX in one of the remaining boxes, and so on until all boxes are filled or one of the players has of their symbols in a row-horizontal, vertical, or diagonal-whichever comes first, in which case that player wins the game. Suppose the players make their moves at random, rather than trying to follow a rational strategy, and that Carl wins the game when he places his third OO. How many ways can the board look after the game is over?

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