[tik-tak-toh] 
| 1. | a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row. |
| 2. | a children's game consisting of trying, with the eyes shut, to bring a pencil down upon one of a set of circled numbers, as on a slate, the number touched being counted as a score. |
| tick·tack·toe also tick-tack-toe or tic-tac-toe (tĭk'tāk'tō') n. A game played by two people, each trying to make a line of three X's or three O's in a boxlike figure with nine spaces. [Probably imitative of the sounds of the original children's game, in which players brought pencils down on a numbered slate with their eyes shut.] |
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