The Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland
& Ireland In Dictionary Form - Volume 1

With Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations.

	42o NIP-SRAT-AND-BITE—NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
	Nip-srat-and-bite A children's game, in which nuts, pence, gingerbread, &c, are squandered.—Addy's Sheffield Glossary. Nitch, Notch, No-Notch Children cut a number of slices from an apple, extending from the eye to the tail, broader on the outside than on the inner, which reaches nearly to the core; one piece has a part cut out, making a notch—this is called " Notch;" another is not cut at all—this is called " No-Notch ;" while a third has an incision made on it, but not cut out—this is called " Nitch." The pieces when thus marked are replaced, and the game consists in one child holding the apple, and pointing to one of the pieces, asking another child which he will have, " Nitch, Notch, or No-Notch;" if he guesses right, he has it and eats it; if wrong, the other eats it.—Sussex (Holloway's Diet, of Provincialisms). Not A game where the parties, ranged on opposite sides, with each a bat in their hands, endeavour to strike a ball to opposite goals. The game is called "Not," from the ball being made of a knotty piece of wood.—Gloucestershire (Holloway's Diet, of Provincialisms). See u Hawkey." Noughts and Crosses This game is played on slates by school-children. The accompanying diagram is drawn on the slate, and a certain figure (generally twenty) is agreed upon as "game." There are two players, one takes noughts [o], the other crosses [ X ]. The three places drawn on the slate above the diagram are for the players each to put down marks or numbers for the games they win, the centre place being for " Old Nick," or M " Old Tom." The object of the game is for each player to occupy three contiguous places in a row or line with either noughts or crosses, and to prevent his opponent