[Ads-l] Antedating of "Tick-Tack-Toe"

[Peter Reitan]

1859, The London Standard, newspapers.com.

Ad for a "new comic pantomime," entitled, "Tit Tat Toe, the three Jolly Butchers, All of a Row."

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard/128120775/

There are also a number of American newspapers in 1875, printing a poem, with the expression, "tit tat toe, three in a row," repeated.

It's possible the game derived its name from the known expression, not the other way around.
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