Puzzle Description:

tic tac toe

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Feb 3, 2014

I always hated this game. As the youngest of 6 the older ones had it figured out how to win no matter what against poor little sister who was still naively guessing away and losing. :)

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Fun puzzle, though!

A draw.

Your cat plays tic tac toe ?

A tied tic-tac-toe game has been called a "cat's game" since before 1952, at least in some areas. Here's a link to a 1952 survey by the American Dialect Society that asked if you called a tied game a "cat's game" or "a tie". (It also gave other names for the game itself.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=mMpFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22cat%27s+game%22&dq=%22cat%27s+game%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KJ4XU9u5OYuEogSR3YCwAw

We call it a cat's game in our house because it's the only game the cat can beat us at. ;)

When I was a kid in Dallas in the early 80s, we still called a tie game of tic-tac-toe "cats". We had no idea why; it was just what you called them.

In Argentina it is called TA-TE-TI

I like how the X's are angled and it keeps the puzzle compact yet readable.

"Naughts and crosses" across the pond

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