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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.
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]
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A game of dots and boxes. 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 ...
For example, the word processing application Microsoft Word uses different file extensions for documents and templates: In Word 2003 the file extension .dot is used to indicate a template, in contrast to .doc for a standard document. In Word 2007 and later versions, it's .dotx, instead of .docx for documents. The OpenDocument Format also has ...
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 ...
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 ...
Invicta purchased all the rights to the game, and the founder, Edward Jones-Fenleigh, refined the game further. It was released in 1971–2. [1] [2] [3] The game is based on a paper and pencil game called Bulls and Cows. A computer adaptation was run in the 1960s on Cambridge University’s Titan computer system, where it was called 'MOO'. This ...