Noughts and Crosses Fruit Machine

English. In a world where the light-skinned Noughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum a Naught and Sephy a, Donald Michie built MENACE, Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine, a machine that can learn be a better player of Noughts and Crosses or Tic-Tac-Toe if you are American. Since computers were less common at the time, MENACE was built out of matchboxes. The original THREAT. In the mid-18th century, Britain began calling the game "Noughts and Crosses," and only later, in the 19th century, did the United States begin calling the game Tic-Tac-Toe. It is believed that this name became more popular than "noughts and crosses" because it was named after the repetitive sound of raising or ticking as players played the game.