Out-line Squares & Row - A Dots & Boxes and Row Game Combined

by Ben Buenaventura
(Panorama City California)

Rules

1. Players alternate turns, putting one line to the side of an outside square or between two inside squares.

2. The player who places three lines around a square acquires it and places his/her marker in it. If both players have two lines around a square, the player who placed the fourth line acquires the square.

3. Players get an extra (second) turn if: (a) he/she is able to place four of his/her line markers surrounding a square, or (b) he/she gains two squares using one line marker.

4. The winner is the first player to get an unbroken row of four (or more) squares horizontally, vertically or diagonally.