The game is played starting with a rectangular array of dots. The two players take turns to join two adjacent dots with a horizontal or vertical line. If a player completes the fourth side of a box they initial that box and must draw another line. When all the boxes have been completed the winner is the player who has initialled the most boxes.

Now you can play this game with people around the world. Dots And Boxes Online is designed just for online using so you need Internet access to play this game.

This game is also known as Squares Paddocks Dots and Dashes.