On scraps of paper we played tit-tat-toe; we improvised a checkerboard and played checkers. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Labrador Trail] Reference
Here and there were stealthy games of tit-tat-toe, practiced, doubtless, behind the teacher's back. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
But if slates favored tit-tat-toe, they also favored ciphering, and nothing but good can come from that. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home] Reference
A small boy was squalling in the seat opposite, and Carl took him from his tired mother and lured him into a game of tit-tat-toe. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
She had a family tartan -- heather brown, with Lincoln green tit-tat-toe crisscrosses -- and she had learned how to walk from a thousand years of strong-walking ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [The Spread Eagle and Other Stories] Reference
Maybe the teacher's nerves were too highly strung to endure the squeaking of gritty pencils, but I think the real reason for their banishment is, that slates invited too strongly the game of noughts and crosses, or tit-tat-toe, three in. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home] Reference
"It's as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
“It’s as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
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