Pizza Employee Makes Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Out of Flour, Challenges Young Girl to Game Through Store Window: Watch
Pizza Employee Makes Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Out of Flour, Challenges Young Girl to Game Through Store Window: Watch
Brian Anthony HernandezSat, May 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM UTC
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Pizza Employee Makes Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Out of Flour, Challenges Young Girl to Game Through Store Window: Watch -
An employee at Marc Anthony's La Pizzeria in Massachusetts challenged a girl to a friendly game of tic-tac-toe
The worker grabbed a handful of flour, plopped it on the counter and created a grid using his finger
Video of their floury face-off has gone viral on TikTok
A young girl in Massachusetts experienced a slice of happiness after she playfully knocked on the window of her local pizza shop.
When an employee at Marc Anthony's La Pizzeria in Onset, near Cape Cod, heard the knocking, he swiftly summoned her back to the window as she ran away. His next move surprised the girl named Valentina Perez.
The worker, wearing a black apron coated in flour from making pizzas, then grabbed a handful of flour, plopped it on the counter and created a tic-tac-toe grid using his finger as Valentina watched in awe.
The girl's mother, Jayme Perez, captured the moment and the subsequent tic-tac-toe matchup between her daughter and the employee in a now-viral TikTok video, which has attracted millions of views since April 15.
Alex at Marc Anthony's La Pizzeria; Valentina Perez playing tic-tac-toe with AlexCredit: jayme perez/storyful
Jayme identified the employee as Alex in the comments section while responding to a viewer who enjoyed watching the friendly competition.
“She can never walk by when Alex is working [without] getting the flour thrown at her!! This is a first time for tic-tac-toe though,” Jayme wrote.
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Valentina swiftly defeated Alex in the floury face-off.
Jayme also revealed that she grew up eating the pizza from Marc Anthony's La Pizzeria and now her daughter is doing the same.
“Great family & restaurant!!” the mother wrote, referring to the namesake founder, his family and the pizza shop's employees.
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Jayme also told ABC 7 Chicago that her daughter “is autistic and doesn't always have amazing interactions, so this is definitely a core memory.”
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