Yeh, maybe Limeys ( ;-)) call it that, I dunno. Sounds British anyway. When I was a kid, we called the game, “Tic-Tac-Toe” and played it only when we were already bored to tears, so its complete predictability didn’t matter so much. Other folks apparently called it by other names, as this off-shoot discovered by Lovely Daughter demonstrates:
And to think… there was even a television show for the bored based on this game.
A show I rarely watched, even when a guy who used to sneak out of ________ Choral Society rehearsals with me was a regular on the show.