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