NOUGHTS and CROSSES

GAME ON
PLAYER X's TURN

How to play

Noughts and Crosses (Commonwealth English)

Tic-tac-toe (American English)

Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English)


Rules

The game is a simple two-player game played on a grid that is 3 squares by 3 squares.

Players alternate turns placing their marks (traditionally 'X' and 'O') into empty squares.

The first player to align three of their marks in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) wins the game, whereupon they traditionally draw a line through those three marks to indicate the win.

If all 9 squares are filled and neither player has 3 in a row, the game ends in a draw.

For the first game 'X' plays first. The next game 'O' will play first. Each player alternately has the first move.