Two excellent players will always finish Now and Cross in a lottery.
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On the beach, we scratched traces of sand with sticks. My 4-year-old son was in good enough good enough to force a draw on the cross with noought, also known as the tick toe.
If someone is on a planet in a place new to this game, it will be played on a 3×3 grid, and the player will take turns adding symbols (X or O) to one of the spaces. The winner is the first person to place three symbols in succession, horizontal, vertical or diagonal.
Source: www.newscientist.com