Hi, Patrick.  There's now such thing as a stupid newbie question...

>The idea is to prompt the user for a simple point on a 3x3 grid meaning:
>answer isKindOf: Point.
>But when implementing..
>
>
>|aPoint|
>
>aPoint := FillInTheBlank
>	request: 'Next move?'
>	initialAnswer: '1 at 1'.
>

Try

	aPoint := Scanner new scanTokens: aPoint


This should give you an array with <number> #@ <number>, which you can then check for validity.  A more powerful thing to do is Compiler evaluate: <string>, but this will more easily cause errors.

Hope this helps

	- Dan