Category - Dots and Boxes

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Paper and Pencil/Dots and Boxes

Resources:

• Connect Capture   [rate] [review]
  A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces.

• Dots and Boxes - Dots and Hexagons   [rate] [review]
  Reviews standard rules, and introduces the analogous game on a hexagonal board.

• Dots-and-Boxes Analysis   [rate] [review]
  Analysis program and results.

• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: Dots and Boxes   [rate] [review]
  Entry with rules, basic strategy, and references on the dots-and-boxes game.

• Postings from rec.games.abstract about Dots and Boxes   [rate] [review]
  Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature.

• Talk by Elwyn Berlekamp: Dots and Boxes, and related Mathematical Games   [rate] [review]
  Streaming-video hour-long special seminar held at MSRI on September 13, 1999 describes the mathematics behind winning strategies.

• Talk by Katherine Scott: Loony Dots and Boxes Endgame   [rate] [review]
  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.

• Vanishing Squares Software   [rate] [review]
  Video game, online game, and paper rules for Vanishing Squares and Vegas Squares.