Games, Paper and Pencil, Dots and Boxes

Dots and Boxes

6 Sites in Dots and Boxes

Connect Capture

A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces.

http://www.geocities.com/alpine_rick_2000/
Dots and Boxes - Dots and Hexagons

Describes the rules for playing on a squared grid and introduces a variation of the game.

http://www.drking.plus.com/hexagons/dots/
Dots-and-Boxes Analysis

Analysis program and results.

http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/boxes/
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: Dots and Boxes

Provides the basic rules and explains different strategies for playing.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DotsandBoxes.html
Postings from rec.games.abstract about Dots and Boxes

Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature.

http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/games/other/dots_n_boxes
Talk by Katherine Scott: Loony Dots and Boxes Endgame

Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes a particular type of endgame which arises frequently in practice and can be solved in polynomial time.

http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2000/gametheory/scott/1/

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