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• n  a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does

• Gates and his pal Paul Allen produced two programs in the 8th grade: one played tic-tac-toe.
• The tic-tac-toe program relies on the judgment of seven internal "experts" in playing the game.
• In 1979 Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games featured a puzzle called Number Place: nine boxes of nine boxes imagine a big tic-tac-toe board with a tiny tic-tac-toe board in .

• ticktacktoe
• ticktacktoo
• tick-tack-toe
• tit-tat-toe
• noughts and crosses

News & Articles

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• Tic-tac-toe made much more interesting with a simple tweak
  We’ve all grown up playing the very simple game of Tic-tac-toe. It’s fun and challenging for those new to the game, but once you’ve figured it out, experienced players always end up declaring…
  June 18, 2013 - Geek.com

Quotes

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• RJ Umberger in USA Today
  We had that never-quit attitude last year,Umberger said. "It doesn't always have to be pretty. But this team has to dig in. We're a hard-working team, that's our MO. We can't get into the pretty, tic-tac-toe kind of game. We're a team that...
• Michel Therrien in Detroit Free Press
  You need to score dirty goals,Therrien said. "The tic-tac-toe plays, sometimes it's going to happen. But most of the time you're going to put the puck to the net and crash the net. This is where it's tough for us because Osgood, like we...
• Alexei Semenov in ESPN
  I saw [Michalek] going to the net, and it was just tic-tac-toe,Semenov said with a shrug belying the play's difficulty. "Sometimes when you don't play for two or three games, it's tough to give your best game, but the team needs me to step...