Shorts: Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom

Radiolab

• Episode: Shorts: Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom
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• Published: 2011-09-07 01:00

Writer Ian Frazier made a startling discovery several years ago in eastern Siberia: no one he met there had ever heard of tic tac toe. In this short, Jad and Robert wonder how a game that seems carved into childhood DNA could be completely unknown in some parts of the world.