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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 .
One solution of the nine dots puzzle. It is possible to mark off the nine dots in four lines. [13] To do so, one goes outside the confines of the square area defined by the nine dots themselves. The phrase thinking outside the box, used by management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s, is a restatement of the solution strategy. According to ...
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The game starts with an arbitrary number (n) of dots or crosses. At each turn, the player chooses to add either a dot, or a cross, along the line they have just drawn. The duration of the game lays between (2n) and (5n − 2), depending on the number of dots or crosses having been added. For n = 1, starting with a dot, the game will end after 2 ...
Suppose there's a 2x2 box and a long chain (more than 4 squares), the rest of the grid being full. Adam plays into the 2x2 box, sacrificing all four boxes in the hope of getting the chain. Beatrice should counter-sacrifice by playing across the 2x2 box without taking any boxes, giving all four boxes to Adam but getting the chain herself. This ...
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