Lukol Directory: Games: Paper and Pencil: Dots and 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....

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/g...

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/

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/2...

Dots-and-Boxes Analysis
Analysis program and results.
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/boxes/

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/





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