Tick-tack-toe
or tick-tack-too, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe
[tik-tak-toh] /ˌtɪk tækˈtoʊ/
noun
1.
a simple game in which one player marks down only X’s and another only O’s, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
2.
a children’s game consisting of trying, with the eyes shut, to bring a pencil down upon one of a set of circled numbers, as on a slate, the number touched being counted as a score.
tick-tack-toe
/ˌtɪktækˈtəʊ/
noun
1.
(US & Canadian) a game in which two players, one using a nought, “O”, the other a cross, “X”, alternately mark one square out of nine formed by two pairs of crossed lines, the winner being the first to get three of his symbols in a row Also called (in Britain and certain other countries) noughts and crosses
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