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noughts and crosses
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noughts and crosses
a game in which two players, one using a nought, "O", the other a cross, "X", alternately mark one square out of nine formed by two pairs of crossed lines, the winner being the first to get three of his symbols in a row


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``We've had some nice tick-tack-toe plays that didn't result in goals, so we talked about driving the net, make it tough on the goalie and hopefully just knock in some ugly ones,'' Conroy said.
Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and Steven Holl (a Supreme Court of architects) truly designed the proverbial camel (the horse designed by a committee) with their two tick-tack-toe buildings at right-angles as a new concept for a tower cum ceremonial gateway incorporating horizontal escape routes between the vertical elements.
They talked about the ``rule of three,'' where ``you split the screen into sections of three, like a tick-tack-toe board.
 
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