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Dots and Boxes

Also known as Pipopipette · La Pipopipette

Dots and Boxes: photograph by Tiger66
Photo: Tiger66, CC BY-SA 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Players alternate drawing one line between two neighbouring dots; whoever closes the fourth side of a box claims it and moves again; most boxes wins.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of France.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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