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 an...