OXO (game)

OXO is a board game for two people, that is played on a grid on which o's and X's are posted.

The game was (especially in Flanders) during boring lessons at school popular. It aims to a row (diagonal, vertical or horizontal) with a zero, cross and zero to form. The players take turns an X or an O in the field. It doesn't matter what symbol you use, each player may place an X or an O. If OXO can form should that by stripes and continues to turn. It is played on a field, for example, 12 on 12 squares; but usually on a leaf of lined notebook paper with diamonds. One leaves or a slip free on the tally marksto oxo's. Winner is the player who can form the most oxo's.

In the 1970s, the game served as the basis for Tik tak tor, a TV game of the Dutch broadcaster VARA.

There is also a computer version of: a computer game for the EDSAC, a computer developed at the end of 1940s, became to the University of Cambridge.

The game appeared in 1952 and was a digital version of the paper OXO-game. Alexander s. Douglas wrote the game to illustrate his Ph.d.-thesis. OXO was operated using a choose disk and there could only be played against a computer opponent. The output was shown at the 35x16 dot-matrix crt of the EDSAC.

Today there are mobile applications that share the same name and according to the same idea work.