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Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels by British author Malorie Blackman, with six novels and three novellas. The series is speculative fiction describing an alternative history . The series takes place in an alternative 21st-century Britain.
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 [2] in Merton, London, and grew up in Lewisham, one of 5 siblings.Her parents were both from Barbados and had come to Britain as part of the "Windrush generation"; her father Joe was a bus driver and her mother Ruby worked in a pyjama factory. [3]
Noughts + Crosses is a British drama television series based on the Noughts & Crosses novel series by Malorie Blackman.The series is set in an alternative history where black "Cross" people rule over white "Noughts".
Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row first is the ...
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Noughts and Crosses is an alternative name for the game of Tic-tac-toe. Noughts and Crosses may also refer to: Noughts & Crosses (novel series), by Malorie Blackman; Noughts and Crosses, Australian television game show; Noughts + Crosses, British television adaptation of the Malorie Blackman novel
Early young adult romances feature a teenage protagonist, who is typically female, white, and middle-class, [2] while books in the twenty-first century include a wider variety of protagonists. [3] Young adult romances were very popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, but were supplanted by more realistic young adult novels in the late 1960s and ...
The matchboxes used by Michie each represented a single possible layout of a noughts and crosses grid. When the computer first played, it would randomly choose moves based on the current layout. As it played more games, through a reinforcement loop, it disqualified strategies that led to losing games, and supplemented strategies that led to ...