Gamehelpdotsandboxes

Goal of the game

To claims the majority of the boxes.

Setup

A rectangular grid of dots, arranged in rows and columns, defines a grid of boxes, the dots being their corners. The grid starts empty.

Player turn

At each turn, a player draws (fills) one of the box sides, connecting one dot to another one adjacent to it vertically or horizontally. The player may choose whatever side and the sides themselves belong to nobody.

Only when a box is completed (its fourth side is drawn), the player completing the box claims it and fills it with his own colour. Once the box claimed, the player has to fill another empty box side (and so on, as long as each action completes another box).

Game end

When all the box sides are drawn, the player who claimed the more boxes wins.