Dots & Sticks: Dots and Boxes
2 Player, Online & AI Strategy
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Remember doodling Dots & Boxes at the back of class? Play online, vs AI or with a friend on one phone. No ad ever interrupts a match.
Remember drawing dots and boxes on the back of a notebook? Dot&Stick brings it back, clean, fast and made for your phone.
Take turns drawing a line between two dots. Close a box and it's yours, and you go again. One careless line can hand your opponent a whole chain, so every move counts. Easy to learn, surprisingly deep to master.
WAYS TO PLAY
Online: match with real players
Vs AI: from relaxed to ruthless
Pass-and-play: two players, one phone
NO ADS MID-MATCH Your game is never interrupted. Ads only appear between games, and only after you've played a few.
WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT
Clean, distraction-free design
Quick matches that fit a coffee break
Real strategy: chains, sacrifices and control
Fun for all ages
Also known as Squares, Paddocks, Dots and Dashes, Pigs in a Pen or simply the Dot Game.
Screenshot captions:
The pen & paper classic
One line. Five boxes.
Play real players online
Beat the AI, easy to expert
Two players, one phone
No ads mid-match. Ever.
Ratings & Reviews
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Never wait for an opponent — Quick Match now pairs you with a friendly AI player if no one's around, so you can always jump into a game.
More reliable online play — fixed an issue where online rooms could get stuck or drop the connection; reconnects are now much smoother.
Cleaner Online Play screen — Create and Join are now separate tabs, so setting up a room or joining one is more straightforward.
Resume where you left off — leaving mid-game to the Home screen now lets you jump right back in (local, vs. AI, or online), or tap Leave Game to start fresh instead.
Bug fix — background music now properly pauses when you switch away from the app.
The developer, Surbhi Agrawal, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Surbhi Agrawal
- Size
- 16.3 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 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+
- Infrequent
Contests
Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
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