Dots and Boxes

Dots and Boxes needs no introduction for anyone who has played it on the back of a school notebook. Two players, Blue and Orange, share one screen and take turns drawing a single line between two neighbouring dots.

Whenever your line completes the fourth side of a box, the box is yours and you must move again. Early on, nobody wants to draw the third side of a box and hand it over. The game is really decided later, when long chains of boxes open up and one good move can claim five or six in a row. There are sixteen boxes; whoever owns more wins.

Take turns drawing one line. Closing a box claims it and gives you another turn. The player with more boxes when the grid is full wins.