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Portuguese
jogo-da-velha
Catalan
tres en ratlla
Spanish
tres en línea
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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.

        jogo-da-velha
        Synonyms
        Examples for "ticktacktoe"
        Examples for "ticktacktoe"
        1
        He was pretending to be very busy playing ticktacktoe with Awful on the back of an old envelope.
        Archer’s Goon
        2
        He saw that his shots had all been good, the three in the belly making a neat pattern, diagonal ticktacktoe.
        Alas, Babylon
        3
        'It's a modification of naughts and crosses-whatthe Americans call ticktacktoe.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        4
        Ticktacktoe and backgammon were played.
        Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
        1
        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.
        Ralestone Luck
        2
        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.
        Across the Fruited Plain
        3
        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.
        Further adventures
        1
        On the other hand, the following is an algorithm for playing tic-tac-toe:
        The Master Algorithm
        2
        Jason Burke scratched a tic-tac-toe board onto the corner of his poem.
        Bloodthirsty
        3
        A game of tic-tac-toe was scratched into the wood by his feet.
        Perdido Street Station
        4
        Thoughts of robots and machines that played tic-tac-toe went out of his mind.
        The drawing of the three
        5
        I drew vertical and horizontal lines to create the tic-tac-toe outline.
        Ebony
        1
        This was rather like basing a thriller on noughts and crosses or consequences.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Jet trails criss-crossed the sky like a giants game of noughts and crosses.
        Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
        3
        A corrections office plays a game of noughts and crosses with a young visitor.
        Radio NZ
        4
        He and Roland began a game of noughts and crosses.
        Another part of the wood
        5
        Then we'd play hangman or noughts and crosses.
        The Guardian