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Dots and boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players (sometimes more). It was first published in the 19th century by French mathematician Édouard Lucas , who called it la pipopipette . [ 1 ] It has gone by many other names, [ 2 ] including dots and dashes , game of dots , [ 3 ] dot to dot grid , [ 4 ] boxes , [ 5 ] and pigs in a pen .
Dots (Czech: Židi, Polish: Kropki, Russian: Точки) is an abstract strategy game, played by two or more people on a sheet of squared paper. The game is somewhat similar to Go, in that the goal is to "capture" enemy dots by surrounding them with a continuous line of one's own dots. Once an area containing enemy dots is surrounded, that area ...
The emergence of connect the dots games in the printed press takes place in the early 20th century. These games were published with other puzzle games as pastime for children on the Sunday edition. While the first books containing connect the dots games exclusively were printed in 1926 by Ward, Lock & Co. [4] A mostly complete puzzle
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Join five (also known as morpion solitaire, cross 'n' lines or line game) is a paper and pencil game for one or two players, played on a plus-shaped grid of dots. The origins of the game are probably in northern Europe. References to the game first appeared in French publications in the 1970s. [1] In addition to being played recreationally, the ...
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