Tic Tac Toe

Recently, tina emailed me. I'll post the email here:

In your pursuit of many things linguistic

I am curious about the game Tic-Tac-Toe (which is played nearly all over the world)

what is it called in other countries and why

I just found out that in Dutch it is called Cheese,butter, eggs - Dairy centric culture?

What is it in Israel?

Korea?

peace & just thinking

I decided to make a short study of it.. I asked some of my friends from around the world what Tic Tac Toe is in other languages. Here are the results of my efforts:

Russian
krestik i nolik
iks and zero

Hebrew
איקסעיגול
Eeks eegul (X and circle)
or
Eeks Meeks Dreeks

Korean
오목 게임
Oh Mok
(Row of Five)
Sam Mok Game
(Row of Three)

Irish (Gaelic)
Naughts (Zero) and Crosses

Spanish

tres en raya

Three in a Row

Catalan
tres en ratlla
Three in a row

Mandarin
连子棋 - lian zi qi : lianzi it's to put the parts in a row. Qi is this kind of board games.
九宫棋 - Jiu gong qi : jiu gong it's about the 9 squares of the games, the qi is the same as above.

Arabic (Palestinian)
XO

Thai
เกมส์โอเอ็กซ์
Pronounced: OX

Tagalog
Tic Tac Toe

Japanese
SANMOKU-NARABE
(pronounciation is like:sun mow coup nara-bay)
it is a bit difficult to explain how to pronounce.....
SAN means 3
MOKU means square
NARABE means to place, or to set or to arrange....
Sanmoku-narabe 三目並べ
三 目 並 べ
san moku nara be
maru-batsu ○×
○　　×
maru batsu
we don't have a Kanji for Maru-Batsu..