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Tic-tac-toe, also called noughts and crosses and many other names, is a pen-and-paper game for two players, O and X, who take turns to mark the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds in placing three of their own marks in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row wins the game.
This game is won by the first player, X:
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