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  • Take the Box Literally
  • Dot Clash brings classroom Dots and Boxes online with daily puzzles and boss fights
  • A SIM-like game

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /2 weeks ago

Take the Box Literally

Game Alice and Bob play Dots and Boxes on an initially empty MxN rectangular grid of boxes. The standard rules of Dots and Boxes apply, except that whenever a box is completed, it...

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pocketgamer.com /3 weeks ago

Dot Clash brings classroom Dots and Boxes online with daily puzzles and boss fights

Every school produced the same doodle. Two people, one exercise book, a grid of dots in the margin and about forty minutes of quiet warfare while somebody at the front explained lo...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /3 weeks ago

A SIM-like game

Alice (who plays first) and Bob take turns to join with a line (i.e., an edge) two of ten dots (or points) scattered around the circumference of a circle. The first player to compl...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /3 weeks ago

Don't get cross... (a twist on Tic Tac Toe)

This is my offering for the August MTC. A lot of it is based on a true story and I am quite willing to play anyone at this game should they wish to test a theory. Don't get cross.....

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /2 weeks ago

Tic-Tac-Toe where you can remove a line

Y'all know tic-tac-toe. Three-by-three grid, two players, Xs vs Os, first to make a line of three wins. It's been solved; optimal play leads to a draw. Here's a twist for the curre...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

Boxes Buzz online puzzle [closed]

Looking for feedback on my numbers puzzle at Boxes.buzz. It is a newly bought domain and some have flagged it as spam - it is not and I am trying to get the flags removed. The game...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /2 weeks ago

was: TTT ... now: OXO

referencing this post Y'all know tic-tac-toe. But there is also, less known perhaps, OXO: any player can place X or O and winner is who finishes OXO. Let's go same step further as...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 week ago

Tic-tac-toe with swapping: does either player have a winning strategy?

Consider ordinary tic-tac-toe on a 3Г—3 board. Two players, рќ›ё and рќ›°, alternate turns, and the first player to make three of their own marks in a row, column, or diagonal wins...

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idev.games /1 week ago

lines and balls

left click and drag creates lines right click creates balls...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

Finding a box blindfolded

Inspired by this programming question. You have an $H\times W$ ($1 \leq H, W \leq 50, H + W \geq$ 3) grid where you start at (0, 0), the top-left, and can move in the four orthogo...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /2 weeks ago

A game of two - Create a square within a unit square (by placing arrows of a fixed length)

Blue and Red play a two player game. They start with a unit square and then take turns placing an arrow, fully contained in the unit square, with a fixed length (each arrow during...

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idev.games /1 week ago

lines

click on screen to create lines that overlap each other....

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /3 weeks ago

rectangL: 2-4 player L-tromino abstract strategy game

Looking for playtesters for Rectangl, a new abstract strategy game for 2-4 players. Players place L-shaped pieces. In order to win, they must cover a 2x5 rectangle or 3x3 square wi...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

Can you [redacted] the boxes to display [redacted]?

I saw some weird boxes lying around. Some were tall, some long, some square. It felt like maybe if I looked long enough... and then it hit me. I just had to [redacted] the boxes an...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /2 weeks ago

Sudoku: BoogieBlue

For anyone who wants to have a go in getting an elegant solution to my other Sudoku In contrary to my last sudoku, this one isn't as that hard, and it has a really enjoyable solve....

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game.giveawayoftheday.com /5 days ago

IL Domino Logic

This is a three dimensional domino puzzle where you place numbered tiles onto a circular grid to form matching groups. Choose between radial or angular orientation and place the ti...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /2 weeks ago

144 = 72 + 72, and no factor crosses between the figures

Write a distinct positive integer in each of the eight circles, so that the four in each figure sum to 72. Any two of the eight circles are joined by a line exactly when their numb...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /3 weeks ago

WarpPrime beats up a noob on TETR.IO, but with a bizarre and puzzling twist involving an unexpected and very hard tetris...

About a week ago, I was playing some TETR.IO when I saw that WarpPrime was online, playing in a room called "beat up a noob." Today, I was thinking some thoughts, and I thought of...

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gamedev.stackexchange.com /3 weeks ago

When window is resized, multiple boards are seen in tictactoe game

package com.abcd; import com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationAdapter; import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx; import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.BitmapFont; import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Sp...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

Columns of shaded or unshaded squares

This is not my puzzle. Source: Reddit

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

You are an ant on a donut, and you love your own stench

You are an ant walking on the gridlines of a torus. For this puzzle, we are going to use these representational conventions: All toroidal surfaces are represented as an $n\times m$...

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game.giveawayoftheday.com /1 week ago

IL Lines 98

In this logic puzzle you need to move colorful balls on a nine by nine grid to form lines of five or more matching colored elements. Click on a ball to select it, then click on an...

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Jeu du Tock

Brit here. Never heard of it.

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

Feedback for a chess-related puzzle idea

A grid is divided in several regions, and the same number of chess pieces is given. The goal is to place one piece in every region, in a way that no piece can take another one. The...

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