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.
He was pretending to be very busy playing ticktacktoe with Awful on the back of an old envelope.
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He saw that his shots had all been good, the three in the belly making a neat pattern, diagonal ticktacktoe.
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'It's a modification of naughts and crosses-whatthe Americans call ticktacktoe.
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Ticktacktoe and backgammon were played.
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On the other hand, the following is an algorithm for playing tic-tac-toe:
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Jason Burke scratched a tic-tac-toe board onto the corner of his poem.
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A game of tic-tac-toe was scratched into the wood by his feet.
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Thoughts of robots and machines that played tic-tac-toe went out of his mind.
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I drew vertical and horizontal lines to create the tic-tac-toe outline.
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This was rather like basing a thriller on noughtsandcrosses or consequences.
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Jet trails criss-crossed the sky like a giants game of noughtsandcrosses.
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A corrections office plays a game of noughtsandcrosses with a young visitor.
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He and Roland began a game of noughtsandcrosses.
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Then we'd play hangman or noughtsandcrosses.
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We may be seen that way, but there's no use spending any more time here playing tick-tack-toe on that wood up there.
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When it rained, the children scurried to fasten the side curtains and then huddled together to keep warm while they played tick-tack-toe or guessing games.
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Oh he was not going to continue this game of Tick-Tack-Toe nor he was not going to let me ruin his big Exit either.