tic-tac-toe
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- noun
- /ˈtɪkˌtækˈtoʊ/
- US
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- For the next ten minutes, Luther and the principal played reverse games of tic-tac-toe.
- play tic-tac-toe
And you can make a complete tree of tic tac toe where you tell the machine what to do no matter what the opponent does.
- And you can make a complete tree of tic tac toe where you tell the machine what to do no matter what the opponent does.
- So we are sufficiently large consciousnesses to run the simple program of tic tac toe right in our minds.
- And so I'm always, I'm always amazed when I ask a bunch of adults to play, which you are to play Tic Tac toe, how into it they get.
- So there's always, you know, it's the perfect information game and people, people play take turns like like tic tac toe.
- So if you have tic tac toe playing AI, it will fail to properly play and loses the game which it should draw trivial.
Examples
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It's a fun way to pass the time when two friends challenge each other to a game of tic-tac-toe.
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She's really good at tic-tac-toe.
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If you could play tic-tac-toe against yourself, do you think you could win?
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Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
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I'm trying to figure out whether the first player can always win at tic-tac-toe if both players do their best.
Fiction book (2001) -
Scattered over the sheet were numerous tic-tac-toe patterns, their cells filled with X's and O's.
Fiction book (2001) -
Ride bikes, make mud pies, feed the birds, and play tic-tac-toe in the dirt with sticks.
Blog text (32) -
After dinner, the children decided to play tic-tac-toe on a piece of paper.
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Whenever we have some free time, we enjoy playing tic-tac-toe during our lunch break.
Synonyms
A simple two-player game of X and O on a 3 by 3 grid to make three in a row
A two-player game where players place Xs and Os to make three in a row
A game for two people who take turns marking a 3 by 3 grid to make three in a row
A two-player game of marking X or O on a 3 by 3 grid to make three in a row
A game for two players who take turns marking a three by three grid to make three in a row
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Etymology
The word tic-tac-toe sounds like three quick taps—tic, tac, toe—a helpful image of players moving 'back and forth' as they play. So the name fits the simple game where two people take turns marking Xs and Os in a three-by-three grid to try to make three in a row.