tic-tac-toe
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tic-tac-toes
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Toss Across blends elements of cornhole and tic-tac-toe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
The TV star, who was an actor and singer before becoming a game-show fixture at age 40, hosted more than 5,000 episodes of NBC’s human tic-tac-toe game from 1966 to 1981.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024
As Walsh wrote in American Scientist, “That trait may be part of what makes the game so addictive; if it were as easy to solve as tic-tac-toe, for instance, it wouldn’t be nearly as engaging.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023
As a result, it took 96 minutes of play following Stefan Noesen’s score on a tic-tac-toe finish for Carolina early in the third for Tkachuk to end it.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023
Rose stood up from where she was playing tic-tac-toe with RiRi in a crust of snow with a couple of sticks, but I went over to the Elders first.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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