Dots & Boxes

How to play

• Taking turns, each player draws ONE line between 2 adjacent dots (horizontal or vertical, never diagonal).
• If your line is the 4th side of a box, you win it -it is filled in your colour- and you play again. If a single line closes 2 boxes at once, you still get just one extra turn.
• When no free line is left, the winner is whoever has more boxes.

By number of players

• 2 players only, taking turns on the same 8 by 8 grid of dots.

Modes and prizes

• Against the computer: you play bots, offline and as often as you like. It pays no coins and no experience, so it is there to practise and try out settings without risking anything.
• Against friends: you open a room and invite them by username. Here only the winner is paid, and at half rate, because you pick who you sit with.
• Online: we sit you with people from all over the world. Every place is paid, most to least, and it is the only mode that counts towards the weekly League. If the room is slow to fill, simulated players complete it; in that case the League counts half.
• Buy-in tables: online you can sit at a 100, 250, 500 or 1000 coin table. Every player puts in that amount on sitting down and the whole pot goes to the winners, with no commission. These tables only fill with real people: if they do not fill in time the table is cancelled and your buy-in is returned. Neither the gold booster nor the VIP pass multiplies the pot.