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MEMORIES:
pardus remembers...We had this in one of my elementary school classrooms. We used to throw the beanbags at each other when ... More »
Posted on 08/15/08
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Few things are as defeating as getting tied at tic-tac-toe. That’s right, the dreaded “cat’s game.” Just enough to let both players know that they were good enough… almost. It’s even more troubling than running the Trivial Pursuit board in circles! More perplexing than that time when Jimmy couldn’t figure out how to draw “
Toss Across is produced by Mattel, the same group of people that bring us Barbie. The play is simple. Same rules at tic-tac-toe, but you toss a small beanbag toward the grid and attempt to get one of the nine triangular blocks to flip over to whichever letter you were. (X or O, naturally…) Most boards today are made of plastic and come with six beanbags, so unless you wanted to run back and forth collecting beanbags, you’d better be precise!
Unlike tic-tac-toe where you know what letter you’re placing, the free-spinning blocks of Toss Across could stop wherever – sometimes even back to “blank.” Sure, it looked simple, but a little too much push and it was like watching the wheel on the Price is Right go round and round past the numbers, or in Toss Across’ case letters, you wanted. The game goes on until someone got three in a row.
Toss Across could get pretty tense, especially when there’s something else going on at the playground. But… you just can’t leave! It could be your winning game! Unpredictable to the last toss, there was no amount of trickery, no amount of pouting that would easily make things go your way. With the endless possibilities and ever-turning blocks of Xs and Os at least we know one thing… the cat doesn’t get the game in Toss Across.
