Boxed In: Dots and Boxes

Two players. A grid of dots. Draw a line, close a box, take another turn. Boxed In is the pencil-and-paper game you already know, built for a touchscreen and sized for one hand or two. FOUR OPPONENTS, AND THE LAST ONE IS SERIOUS Beginner blunders on purpose. Easy plays safe. Hard knows the double-cross — it will hand you two boxes to take twenty back. Expert solves the endgame exactly, and once the board breaks into chains it does not make mistakes. If you have beaten every Dots and Boxes app you have tried, start at Hard. COACH TELLS YOU WHY Most players lose for years without learning why, because taking every box you can is exactly how you lose. Tap Hint and Boxed In shows you the move and explains it: which chain you are about to open, how many boxes it concedes, when to hand two back to keep control. Two free hints a day. PLAY BACK THE GAME YOU JUST LOST Post-game review replays the whole game and marks the moves where it turned, with the solver's answer at each one. It tells you when its judgement is exact and when it is a rule of thumb, because a coach that pretends to certainty is not worth listening to. MADE TO BE PLAYED Four board sizes, the biggest reserved for tablets. Pass-and-play on one device. Six themes, from paper and ink to true black. Sound and haptics you can turn off. Your game saves itself and picks up where you left it. Works offline, always. BOXED IN PRO One purchase, no subscription: removes ads, unlocks unlimited hints, post-game review, three exclusive themes, and free undo against the AI. The whole game is there without it — every board, every opponent including Expert, every free theme. Pro is for people who want more, not for people who want the game.