ART 3RD COURSE. THE ORIGIN OF TIC-TAC-TOE

 Do you know what board game tic-tac-toe is?

   You´ve played it sometimes very surely.

      It actually is one of the oldest and simplest board games in history.

             Read the following information to discover the basic facts of its history. 

 

THE ORIGIN OF TIC-TAC-TOE

The origin of this game dates back to ancient Egypt.

However the more recorded versión comes from ancient Rome where people played a game called TERNI LAPILLI  using three pebbles at a time.   

Thousands of years later, Britain 1858, the first ever recorded mention of the game as we know it today came in a British tabloid. The game there was called KNOTS (0) and CROSSES (X)     

About 30 years later, 1891, an American magazine referred to it as a children´s game known as TIC-TAC-TOE, TIT-TAT-TOE in England: where TIT is a slap, TAT is retribution and TOE is three in a row. From then it became a verbal tick becoming tic-tac-toe.

        In 1952 tic-tac-toe became the first ever made video game (OXO) developed by British computer scientist Alexander Sandy Douglas for an early computer called EdSac.  

   

As it´s the usual case with all video games they evolve to become as interactive as possible. Nowadays there are thousands of video games combining different skills and physical activity. That´s the case of this TIC-TAC-TOE WALL GAME.

Now COPY these basic facts about TIC-TAC-TOE at the back of you PUMPKIN BOARD:

 1.  The origin of TIC-TAC-TOE dateS back to ancient Egypt

2.  The Romans played TERNI LAPILLI

3. In 1858 a British newspaper mentions KNOTS and CROSSES 

4. In 1891 it´s first called TIC-TAC-TOE

 5. In 1952 Alexander Douglas created OXO, the first video game. 





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