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Noughts And Crosses Or Tit-tat-toe

Source: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
Category: IN THE TRAIN Or DURING A WAIT AT A RAILWAY STATION





"Noughts and Crosses" is playable anywhere; all that is needed is a
piece of paper--a newspaper will do--and a pencil. The framework is
first made. Thus:--




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One player chooses crosses and the other noughts, and the one who is
to begin puts his mark--say, a cross--in one of the nine squares. The
other puts a nought in another of the squares, and so it goes on until
either three noughts or three crosses are in a straight line in any
direction. Thus, this is the end of a game in which noughts played
first and crosses won:


X

-----+-----+-----

X O O

-----+-----+-----

X O


But it often happens that the game is drawn, as in this example, in
which noughts played first:--


X O

-----+-----+-----

O O X

-----+-----+-----

X X O


A blank book for "Noughts and Crosses," with the framework all ready,
can now be obtained. It has places for the names of the players, and
the date.




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