noughts and crosses
Three in row
Noughts and crosses is the British name for the game Americans call tic-tac-toe.
Two players take turns marking a three-by-three grid, one drawing circles (noughts), the other drawing X's (crosses), each trying to get three marks in a row: The children played noughts and crosses on the back of a napkin.
- tic-tac-toeThree-in-a-row grid game
- board gameMarked-surface group entertainment
- two playerRequiring a single opponent
- playerGame participant
- turnsRotations or chances
taking turns · strategy · game · grid · zero-sum game · game theory · traditional game · paper and pencil · blocking · winning · draw · cat's game · competitive play · anticipating · decision tree · thinking ahead · three-in-a-row · ticktacktoe
- paper gameshangman, tic-tac-toe, dots and boxes, battleship, boxes
- playground gamestag, hide and seek, hopscotch, freeze, capture the flag
noughts and crosseschess
Strategic board game
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noughts and crosseschess
Strategic board game
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