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This article was reviewed by Ashton Wu. Ashton Wu is a Board Game expert at Shelfside. After delving into the Yugioh tournament community while growing up, Ashton launched himself into the board gaming community in 2014 and went into reviewing board games as a career full-time in 2019. His YouTube channel Shelfside has over 50K subscribers and over 4 million views, assisted by written reviews on the Shelfside website and BoardGameGeek.com. He also consults with gaming companies to build high-quality gaming products. Ashton is a tournament commentator, board game playthrough director, and host of the Shelfside Podcast, where he talks about board games with his business partner, Daniel. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in addition to the Technology Management Certificate.
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A fun paper and pencil game useful for rainy days, traveling or just for spare moments when you want to play a good puzzle game. The diagram shown below illustrates the various steps in succession.
Steps
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Make a square or rectangle of dots, as shown in this image. -
Provide the players with pencils. Each player makes a line joining two dots but tries to prevent the others from making a square.Advertisement -
Keep playing. For a while it is easy, but soon the number of dots is scarce, and it requires careful marking to prevent the squares from being formed. -
Change turns. Finally all the chances are gone and the next player completes a square. As a reward this player is given another chance, thus completing several, then joins two dots and the next player continues. -
Each player places his or her initial in the completed square, so that the score is easily counted. The player who has succeeded in making the most squares is the winner.
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Things You'll Need
- Paper
- Pencils
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References
- May C Hoffman, Games for Everybody, 1905, public domain resource courtesy of Kellscraft Studio.
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