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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
References
- May C Hoffman, Games for Everybody, 1905, public domain resource courtesy of Kellscraft Studio.
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