Boxed In: Dots And Boxes Game
2 Player Strategy Board Duel
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Close the box. Take the turn.
Boxed In — Close the Box. Take the Turn.
No dice. No cards. No power-ups. Just a grid of dots, eighty-four links between them, and thirty-six boxes waiting to be claimed. Every match is decided entirely by what you can see and count.
THE RULE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Draw a link. Close the fourth side of a box and it is yours — and you go again. That one rule turns a simple grid into a game of chains: touch the wrong link and you hand your opponent a run of six boxes in a single turn.
THE DOUBLE-CROSS
Beginners take every box on offer. Experts give two away. Decline the tail of a chain and your opponent is forced to open the next one for you. Master this and the endgame stops being luck and starts being arithmetic.
AN OPPONENT THAT ACTUALLY SOLVES IT
The computer runs a full search of the closing position — once the board is down to its last sixteen links, it plays them perfectly. Before that it counts chains, declines the ones worth declining, and concedes the smallest chain it can when cornered.
A DIFFERENT BOARD EVERY TIME
Each match starts with a handful of neutral links already drawn — usually four or five, sometimes as few as one, occasionally as many as eight. Never enough to gift anyone a box, always enough to change the shape of the opening.
THE EXTRA MOVE
Once per match, hold your turn through a link that captures nothing. Use it to delay the moment you have to open a chain — or to steal the tempo right before your opponent does.
REWIND AND LEARN
Undo any move and try the other line. Against the computer, that turns every match into a training board for the chain endgame.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Pure strategy: zero randomness once the board is set
• Local 1v1 on one device, or a genuinely hard computer opponent
• Crisp square grid, red and blue, built for clarity
• Boxes pop as they fall, with haptic feedback on every capture
Thirty-six boxes. One rule. Download Boxed In.
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Information
- Seller
- One Date Private Limited
- Size
- 43.3 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ad-Free $4.99
- Copyright
- © One Date Private Limited
