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Dots and Boxes

Draw lines and claim boxes against a four-level computer or a friend. Close a box to go again.

You: 0Computer: 0Turn: YouBoard: 4×4

You: draw a line.

How to play

  • Take turns drawing one line between neighbouring dots. The newest line glows.
  • Drawing the fourth side of a box claims it — and you must draw again.
  • When every line is drawn, whoever owns more boxes wins.
  • Easy often hands you boxes. Hard takes every box and avoids giving any while it can. Extreme also gives away the smallest chain when it must. Nightmare adds the double-cross: it sometimes declines the last two boxes of a chain to keep control.