Dots and Boxes Arena
Classic Pen & Paper Strategy
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A new board every day — the same one for everyone. Climb the daily and weekly leaderboards, or pass the phone and play a friend on one device.
Dots and Boxes is the classic pen-and-paper game from the margins of your notebook, rebuilt for your phone. Take turns connecting two neighboring dots. Draw the fourth side of a box to claim it and take another turn. When the board is full, the player with the most boxes wins.
Easy to learn, hard to master: one careless line can hand your opponent a whole chain of boxes.
DAILY BOARD
• A new board every day — everyone plays the same one
• Daily and weekly leaderboards in Game Center
• 19 achievements to unlock along the way
PLAY VS COMPUTER
• Three levels: Easy is ideal for learning, Medium never gifts a box, and Hard counts chains and solves the endgame exactly
• Matches for 2, 3 or 4 players
• Four board sizes, from a quick 3×3 to a long 9×9
• Two players on one device: pass the phone and play like on paper
PLAY ONLINE
• Create a room for 2–4 players and share the room code with friends
• The host picks the board inside the room and starts when everyone is in
• Random Match quickly finds you an opponent
• Lost your connection? You have time to jump back into the match
MAKE IT YOURS
• Six board themes: Paper, Sand, Mint, Chalkboard, Night and Neon
• Available in 17 languages
• Sound and vibration you can switch off
• Stats for your games against the computer and online
• A short, hands-on "How to play" guide
NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
Your profile is created automatically, with no email or password. Move it to another device with your recovery code, or delete it from the app at any time.
No ads. Just dots, lines and boxes.
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• A new board every day: everyone plays the same one.
• Daily and weekly Game Center leaderboards for those boards.
• Two players on one device: pass the phone over and play like on paper.
• Game Center achievements are here — 19 of them, from your first win to a ten-match streak.
• Random Match finds an opponent faster.
• Tap an invite link and the game opens straight in the app.
• Resetting your statistics now asks for confirmation.
• Settings has a link for rating the game.
• The new game screen no longer shifts when you switch difficulty.
The developer, Irfan Turkmen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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- User Content
- Identifiers
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Information
- Seller
- Irfan Turkmen
- Size
- 48.3 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 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+
- Copyright
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