No Ads, No Subscriptions, No Tracking. Close a box. Keep your turn. Two to four players, eight boards. Optimized for iPhone Duo, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac.
No Ads, No Subscriptions, No Tracking.
Draw the fourth side. Claim the box. Take another turn. In Squared2, one well-timed move can open a whole chain and turn a close game around.
The pencil-and-paper classic Dots and Boxes is back for quick matches and friendly rivalries. Play with two, three, or four people, or challenge the computer.
This is a game I remember playing in school with my friends, and I am so pleased to bring it to a new, modern digital format. This game goes by a few other names too, depending on where you grew up: Boxes, Squares, Paddocks, or Pigs in a Pen.
MORE WAYS TO PLAY TOGETHER
- Pass & Play: gather around one screen and take turns.
- Live online: challenge friends and trade moves in real time.
- Turn-based online: take your turn when it suits you, without needing everyone online together.
- Nearby: connect on separate devices and play people in the room.
Each seats two, three, or four players.
Online matches use Game Center. Local and nearby play do not require a Game Center account. Online features are subject to account restrictions.
THE PAPER CLASSIC, MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN
Clean dot grids, colorful claims, and an ink-on-paper design in light and dark keep the board easy to follow. Play on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac, with support for 50 languages. One purchase covers all four: play with the Siri Remote on the TV, or with menus and the keyboard on the Mac.
OPTIMIZED FOR IPHONE DUO
Open the phone and the board fills the inner display; close it and your game carries on, on the outer display, right where you were.
SIMPLE RULES. SATISFYING TACTICS.
Join two dots with a line. Complete a box and it belongs to you, marked with your initial or player number. You also get another turn. Finish with the most boxes to win.
The challenge is knowing which line to leave. Give away the wrong opening and your opponent may collect a chain of boxes before you play again. Look ahead, time your moves, and make the next turn count. How to Play and the Video Instructions teach the chain strategy.
PICK YOUR PACE
Choose eight board presets, from 3×3 dots to a sprawling 12×12 grid. Start small for a quick round or settle into a larger contest. The Swedish opening begins with the border already drawn, changing the choices from the first move.
Four computer strengths, Easy through Expert, give you room to learn and a reason to improve. Ask for a hint when you want a nudge, undo during local play to try another approach, and revisit a finished game with Watch Replay.
KEEP YOUR PLACE. BUILD YOUR RECORD.
Local games save as you play, with room for up to six unfinished games, and iCloud carries them to your other devices. Return when you're ready for the next round.
Earn XP in qualifying games, climb the levels, and pursue 28 achievements and six Game Center leaderboards. Track your wins, boxes, chains, and progress. Pass & Play is for the rivalry, not XP.
One purchase. No subscriptions or in-app purchases. No third-party ads or tracking. We may show you our other games.
Pick a board. Bring your friends. Leave them one less box.
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New: optimized for iPhone Duo.
• Open the phone and the board fills the inner display; close it and your game carries on, on the outer display, right where you were.
• Stand it partly open like a book: the board stays on the flat half and the scores on the standing one.
• Video Instructions gain an iPhone Duo chapter, played on a Duo.
Also in this version:
• The Video Instructions gain a new chapter after the opening, Using the App: drawing a line, the game's buttons, the menu and Settings.
• Online and nearby games no longer count toward the daily 600-XP limit, which now covers games against the computer only.
• After an online game ends early, Undo and Restart can no longer overwrite or delete one of your saved games; a finished online match counts its XP once, even after a relaunch; and when your account can't start a rematch, the message reads right for an opponent on a Mac or an Apple TV.
• A tied game's results card shows no single winner, Watch Replay's labels wrap in long languages, the Sound button clicks when it turns sound back on, and Czech and Slovak name Undo apart from Back.
• Titles keep their letters joined in Arabic, Urdu and the Indian scripts, and choosing Arabic, Hebrew or Urdu in the app turns the screens right to left at once.
• The live search scrolls a crowd of nearby players, and its messages change language with the app at once.
• On an iPhone Duo opened, and on an iPhone on its side, the results card sets your score beside its buttons — nothing to scroll.
• The buttons under the board fit every iPhone in every language, the smaller iPhones included.
• A replay keeps the board at its full size.
• Apple TV: How to Play's cards no longer lift as you read them, the remote no longer reaches the buttons under a finished game's card, the online hub says press instead of tap, and the Video Instructions' Transcript title fits.
• Mac: the window opens with the whole menu in view, even with a saved game; the scores and the buttons sit beside the board in a wide window, so the board is larger; the Video Instructions' Transcript opens full size; Undo, Restart and How to Play wait while an alert or a dialog is open, and Restart leaves a finished game's result on screen; the online hub says click and right-click.
• On an iPhone Duo the nearby invitation and the resume offer sit on the board's half.
Version 1.4.0
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