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Noughts and Crosses

Ranked by the users of the website Board Game Geek as the 27,121st best game out of 27,121 games, Tic-Tac-Toe - an alternative, and undoubtedly stupider name, for the game Noughts and Crosses.  This ranking comes from an average score calculated from the hundreds of people who have felt it necessary to review a game you played on the inside covers of exercise books at school instead of writing about how different animals in Orwells Animal Farm represented different people you’d never heard of. But it’s not all doom and gloom. The user Ahj00ma has provided the game with a score of 7 out of 10 - well above its rock-bottom 2.7 average, pointing out that Noughts and Crosses is, “accessible in a ll languages” and “extremely portable.” Predictable for a covert agent of guerrilla warfare, the ninja user ninjabellybutt is having none of it, giving the game 2 out of 10, dismissing its “weak theme and terrible art,”  If he wasn’t a dangerous mercenary from feudal Japan, I would argue wi...