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About Turn
Amazement
A New Angle
AO
Backgammon
Basketweave
Best of Both Whirls
Bifocal
Bunch of Fives
Cable Tube Map
Chartres
Checkmate
Chromatic Scale
Code Comfort
Counting Pane
Cubism
Curve of Pursuit
Data Log
Dodecagon Thing
Doing the Rounds
Double Base
Double Vision
Equal Parts
Fibo-optic
Fibrenacci
Figure of Eight
Finite Field
Flatland Lock
From Square to Eternity
Four Corners
Give Me a Clew
Going Underground
Golden Spiral
Granny's Draughtboard
Granny's Ludo
Half Measures
Have It All Ways
Key Rings
Long and Winding Road
Lucas Like Fibonacci
Making Waves
Mere Bagatelle
Metafourmosis
Mixed Mitrefours
Money Spinner
Noughts and Crosses
Order of Magnitude
Over and Out
Penrose
Pieces of Eight
Place Order
Points of Departure
Point to Point
Pseudoku - Crochet
Pseudoku - Knit
Pythagoras Tree
Pythagorean Ripples
Revolution
Ring-road
Rule of Three
Run Rings Round
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Snakes and Ladders
Some Square Over The Rainbow
Spacecraft
Spaghetti Junction Map
Spinning a Yarn
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Square Snowflake
Striptease
Surface Tension
Swirl Without End
Take Five
The Woolsack
Tilting at Windmills
Tower Blocks
Try Angulate
Under Orders
Wall Chart
Walls of Troy
Wheels Within Wheels
Wheely Colourful
Window Boxes
Windows 100
Wreck Tangled
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NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
In UK we call this game Noughts and Crosses but it is known all over the world.
It is a traditional game, for two people, which is not inherently mathematical but such games help to develop logical thinking and planning strategy
Unlike other strategy games, such as draughts or chess, each game is over very quickly and requires much less concentration.
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Noughts and Crosses
CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION
The afghan consists of nine granny squares, which are stitched, or crocheted together.
The playing pieces are circles worked in trebles (UK definition). The crosses are five small granny squares, stitched together.
CROCHET INFORMATION
Use any yarn, in two colours, for the afghan itself. It can be made to any size.
The playing pieces are nine small cushions. Each is a circle with a cross on one side.
A cushion cover could be made to store the pieces when not in use.
This large-sized version is great fun as it can be used as an afghan or as a floor game.
Whenever we have taken this game to Maths and Science Fairs, it has been amazingly popular with the most unlikely-looking teenagers. The reaction is always the same: first they use the playing pieces as frisbees then quickly settle down to organise games and tournaments. Younger children (and adults) also love it.
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