How to win at Dots and Boxes
When every line is drawn, the player with more boxes wins. Learn the end of the game, and why giving away boxes is sometimes right. How Dots and Boxes works · lesson 3 of 3.
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The game ends when every line has been drawn. The player with more boxes wins. On boards with an even number of boxes, an equal split is a draw.
Here you have three boxes and your opponent has three. The top row decides it.
You know all the rules. Test yourself in the rules check.
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Who wins Dots and Boxes?
More boxes at the end wins.
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