Ultimate Noughts and Crosses

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DIRECTIONS: Noughts and crosses on nine boards. First move goes anywhere.
1Play in a small board
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2Your square sends them
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3Three boards in a line
1. Three in a line inside a small board wins it. Mark it with a big O or X.
2. The square you play in sends them to that board: top-right square, top-right board.
3. Sent to a won or full board? Play anywhere.
4. Three small boards in a line wins the game.

Ultimate Noughts and Crosses — Another Board

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After three games: is the middle board the best place to start? What makes it good, and what makes it dangerous?
Nobody has solved this game. Adults lose it to children all the time.