“
Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting
for the next x or o.
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Lang Leav
“
Xs and Os
Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting,
for the next x or o.
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Lang Leav (Love & Misadventure)
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Sitting at his desk Remy filled out two forms and then played a few games of Tic-Tac-Toe against himself. Playing the “X’s”, he lost a seven game tournament four games to one.
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Hank Quense (The King Who Disappeared)
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Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.
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Jim Butcher (Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13))
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It was nothing. We played tic-tac-toe for a while. You know we do that sometimes."
"Oh, I know," Teagan says.
"Okay, how did you make that sound like we were rolling around ripping off each other's clothes?
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Elizabeth Scott (Something, Maybe)
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Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.
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Jim Butcher (Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13))
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Flamers play chess, trolls poop on tic-tac-toe boards.
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Eric W. Saeger (Russian Nazi Troll Bots! : The Busy Person’s Guide to How Trump’s Trolls Won the Internet, What’s Ahead, and What You Can Do)
“
Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting,
for the next x or o.
”
”
Lang Leav (Love & Misadventure)
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Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists
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R.J. Palacio (Wonder)
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I gladly gave my aunt the privilege of scraping off all gum so my job wasn’t as interesting or horrifying. I did find a few more menu drawings--a baby’s scribble, an elaborate tic-tac-toe board, and some stretched out stick figures that made me miss Addie again.
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Kate Willis (Enjoy the Poodle Skirt)
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I can always win in Tic Tac toe for example one strategy can be used serveral times and one moment he will find that I'm using this strategy and in the other day he will forgot aobut this and I just repeat the same - But from this point of view it's kind a useless and taking time. I want to find new path ways, the same is with chess I can win always the same way but one moment it come the rule or the thought - hey I want this to return and I will give you to return. I hate this moment it's kind a noobish or kind a bot way!
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Deyth Banger
“
Nine balls of julienned vegetables sit above a dense chicken vinaigrette. The plate looks like a game of noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe). The table is bathed in a cloud of chicken vapour with a few sprays of eau-de-cologne of roasted chicken. In this way the chicken is everywhere and nowhere all at once.
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Massimo Bottura (Never Trust A Skinny Italian Chef)
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Most young children can’t read, and if they can, it’s mostly words like “dog” and “go.” But Madeline had been reading since age three and, now, at age five, was already through most of Dickens. Madeline was that kind of child—the kind who could hum a Bach concerto but couldn’t tie her own shoes; who could explain the earth’s rotation but stumbled at tic-tac-toe. And that was the problem. Because while musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren’t. And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special—it’s just annoying.
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Bonnie Garmus (Lessons in Chemistry)
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And at the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney on Sixty Minutes, have you ever wondered why we say fiddle-faddle and not faddle- fiddle? Why is it ping-pong and pitter-patter rather than pong-ping and patter-pitter? Why dribs and drabs, rather than vice versa? Why can't a kitchen be span and spic? Whence riff-raff, mish-mash, flim-flam, chit-chat, tit for tat, knick-knack, zig-zag, sing-song, ding-dong, King Kong, criss-cross, shilly-shally, see-saw, hee-haw, flip-flop, hippity-hop, tick-tock, tic-tac-toe, eeny-meeny-miney-moe, bric-a-brac, clickety-clack, hickory-dickory-dock, kit and kaboodle, and bibbity-bobbity-boo? The answer is that the vowels for which the tongue is high and in the front always come before the vowels for which the tongue is low and in the back.
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Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language)
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Nonna had looked up from her game of tic-tac-toe with my sister and sighed. “Finally, some entertainment.
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Danielle Lori (The Sweetest Oblivion (Made, #1))
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Ever wished you were unbeatable in Tic-Tac-Toe? You have JUST discovered the way! Imagine the expression on your friends’ face when, every time you play Tic-Tac-Toe together, they just can’t beat you! Even when you play 10, 20 or 50 rounds in a row.
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Puzzleland (30 Interactive Brainteasers to Warm up your Brain)
Puzzleland (Tic Tac Toe: 8 Strategies to Win Every Game)
Jon Larimer (Tic Tac Toe)
Jon Larimer (Tic Tac Toe)
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to practice the strategies of this book is to play Tic-Tac-Toe online, against
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Puzzleland (Tic Tac Toe: 8 Strategies to Win Every Game)
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Dear Russell,
Please don’t fall in love with Mrs. Smith’s niece. I—
Caleb’s dash crossed the entire page. Then he filled up the rest of the sheet with doodles, drawing stars and spirals and little tic-tac-toe boards.
I love you, he wrote at the bottom, in tiny letters. I want to be with you. I want you to wait for me till I’m ready, and I can’t ask because for all I know you’d be waiting till doomsday, because I don’t know how to accept
He wrote a series of dashes. He scribbled some more stars. He flipped over the page, and wrote on the back:
that you might leave me. That it might not last. And also that it might last, it might be real, it might be something I have to tell my parents about one day, I might have to choose you over the entire rest of the world.
That I might choose you over the entire rest of the world, and you might change your mind.
He could not look at it anymore. He flipped the paper back over, and wrote one more sentence among the scattered stars.
But I am going to try.
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Aster Glenn Gray (The Sleeping Soldier)
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In the meantime Greene was offered a job by the British American Tobacco Company in China. Days before he was to sail, a fellow employee told him that they would be able to play noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) all the way to China. He promptly resigned rather than face this prospect.
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Alex Terego (Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic (A Handful of Catholics Book 5))
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Whether you build a computer out of transistors, hydraulic valves, or a chemistry set, the principles on which it operates are much the same. The key idea of the tic-tac-toe machine is that the And function is implemented by connecting two switches in series and the Or function is implemented by connecting two switches in parallel, but there are many other ways to implement And and Or.
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William Daniel Hillis (The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work)
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Computation is about performing tasks that seem to be complex (like winning a game of tic-tac-toe) by breaking them down into simple operations (like closing a switch).
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William Daniel Hillis (The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work)
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These simple patterns of serial and parallel wiring can be used in combinations to form connections that follow various logical rules. In the tic-tac-toe machine, chains of switches connected in series are used to detect patterns, and these chains are connected in parallel to lights, so that several patterns can light the same bulb—that is, produce the same response from the machine.
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William Daniel Hillis (The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work)
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A game,” he wrote, “may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of human creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.
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Marcus du Sautoy (Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games)
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So when you’re dealing in markets, it’s not enough to have your own view, you have to consider what other people think. Neoclassical economics likes to treat humans as deductive processing machines; we can go from general premises to specific conclusions. The trouble is, in all but the simplest situations (think tic-tac-toe), we simply don’t have the computational ability to operate deductively. Indeed, humans tend to be superb pattern recognizers—so good, in fact, that we see patterns where none exist. Toss out rational decision making, and things start to get complicated.
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Michael J. Mauboussin (More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places)
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As children, our lives are like a game of tic-tac-toe—a game like many that are only possible under rules. Only two letters, never more. We are not allowed to imagine past the threshold of nine boxes. Any goal past achieving three in a row is futile.” —Birds On The Wall
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FinPoet
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little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.
”
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Jim Butcher (Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13))
Puzzleland (Tic Tac Toe: 8 Strategies to Win Every Game)
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Some are easy,
Some are hard.
Some may feel like the longest yard.
But keep on going,
Do not stop.
One day you will reach the top.
And when you're there,
Look out below.
Give a hand to friend or foe.
Help them up,
And you will find,
That it was you,
The entire time.
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”
Psil Silva (The Psychedelic Crossword)
“
Tea for Two
(A Tactful Texas-sized Twister of a Tale)
Afternoon tic-tac toe.
Tête a tête quiet head to toe.
To and fro toe-to-toe.
–′Tisk for task, tit for tat–
(Teeter-totter tack and back)–
Tat-a-tat-tat!
—S.w.a.k.
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Douglas M. Laurent
Jon Larimer (Tic Tac Toe)