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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 .
Some popular examples of pencil-and-paper games include tic-tac-toe, sprouts, dots and boxes, hangman, MASH, paper soccer, and spellbinder. [3] The term is unrelated to the use in role-playing games to differentiate tabletop games from role-playing video games.
Dots and boxes, a pencil-and-paper game for two players who take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots; Hot box (game), a team sport that is similar to ultimate but played on a smaller field with fewer players; Jury Box, a 1937 parlour game; The Orange Box, a 2007 video game compilation
François Édouard Anatole Lucas (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa edwaʁ anatɔl lykɑ]; 4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) was a French mathematician.Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence.
Another connectivity game played with paper and pencil on a rectangular array of dots (or graph paper) is the children's game of "dots and boxes". Players alternate drawing in a vertical or horizontal line connecting any two adjacent dots. When a line completes a square, the player initials the square.
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Paper-and-pencil games – e.g. tic-tac-toe or dots and boxes; Physical skill games – e.g. Camp Granada; Position games (no captures; win by leaving the opponent unable to move) – e.g. kōnane, mū tōrere, or the L game; Race games – e.g. Pachisi, backgammon, snakes and ladders, hyena chase, or Worm Up; Role-playing games – e.g ...
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 ...