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# Dots and Boxes game
- URL: https://www.esheets.io/dots-and-boxes/
- Published: 2025-05-22T21:46:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T15:19:11.000Z
- Author: Richard Linnington
- Tags: Maths, Battles

## How to play

- **Take Turns Drawing Lines:** Players take turns drawing a single horizontal or vertical line to connect two adjacent dots on the grid.
- **Complete a Box, Claim It!** If your line is the fourth side that closes a small 1x1 square (a "box"), you claim that box as your own (it will be marked with your initial or color).
- **Bonus Turn:** When you complete a box, you immediately get to take another turn. You can keep taking turns as long as you keep completing boxes!
- **Fill the Grid:** Keep playing until all possible lines are drawn and all boxes are claimed.
- **Most Boxes Wins:** The player who has claimed the most boxes at the end is the winner!

Rows (boxes): Cols (boxes): Apply Size & Restart 

Current Turn: Player 1 

Score: Player 1 (B): 0 | Player 2 (R): 0 

Reset Game