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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tick-tack-toe, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe, noughts and crossesnoun

    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

Wiktionary

  1. tic-tac-toenoun

    A game in which two players take turns putting circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and try to get three of the same symbols in a line

Wikipedia

  1. Tic-tac-toe

    Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner. It is a solved game, with a forced draw assuming best play from both players.

ChatGPT

  1. tic-tac-toe

    Tic-Tac-Toe is a traditional two-player game played on a grid normally consisting of 3x3 squares. Players take turns adding their own symbol, traditionally an "X" or an "O", into the empty squares on the grid. The aim is to be the first to get three of one's own symbols either in a row, column, or diagonal on the game board before the opponent does. If all squares are filled and no player has accomplished this, the game is a draw.

Wikidata

  1. Tic-tac-toe

    Tic-tac-toe is a paper-and-pencil game for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game. The following example game is won by the first player, X: Players soon discover that best play from both parties leads to a draw. Hence, Tic-tac-toe is most often played by young children. The friendliness of Tic-tac-toe games makes them ideal as a pedagogical tool for teaching the concepts of good sportsmanship and the branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the searching of game trees. It is straightforward to write a computer program to play Tic-tac-toe perfectly, to enumerate the 765 essentially different positions, or the 26,830 possible games up to rotations and reflections on this space.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tic-tac-toe in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tic-tac-toe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tic-tac-toe in a Sentence

  1. Dan Sullivan:

    Right now, the Russians are playing chess in the Arctic and our Administration still seems to think it’s tic-tac-toe.


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