Versions of noughts and crosses are played across the word This picture shows children in Pakistan playing a version called adda kadda But did you know that there are strategies you can use so that you ID: 551193
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Strategy Games – Noughts and Crosses
Versions of noughts and crosses are played across the word.This picture shows children in Pakistan playing a version called “adda kadda.”
But did you know that there are strategies you can use so that you never lose?
In noughts and crosses players take it in turns to place a nought or a cross on the board. The first player to connect 3 in a straight line wins.Slide2
Strategy Games – Noughts and Crosses
If you go first…
Go in the centre square
Here are some strategies.
If your opponent goes in a corner square, go in the corner opposite.
Now you have two places you could go to win and only one that can be blocked.
If your opponent goes in an edge square, go in one of the corners opposite.
Again you have two places you could go to win and only one that can be blocked.Slide3
Strategy Games – Noughts and Crosses
If you go second…
If your opponents goes in the centre square, go in a corner.
Here are some strategies.
If they go in the opposite corner as shown, go in any square
not next to
the one you played before.
If your opponent now carries on to block you, the game will continue to a tie.
All these strategies don’t guarantee you a win, but they do guarantee that the worst case scenario is a tie.Slide4
Strategy Games – Noughts and Crosses
Try the strategies out yourself.
Play on the board here or online by clicking the link below.