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Dots and Boxes
Draw a line between two dots. Close a box and it is yours, and you draw again, so one move can run a chain. Most of the twenty-five boxes takes the pot.
The rules in brief
- The board is a six by six grid of dots, which makes room for twenty-five boxes.
- On your turn you draw one line between two neighbouring dots, across or up and down.
- Draw the fourth side of a box and that box is yours, and you draw again immediately.
- When every line on the board has been drawn, the game is over, and whoever owns more of the twenty-five boxes wins.
- Twenty-five is an odd number, so a tie is impossible: every game of Dots and Boxes has a winner.
How stakes and the fee work
You choose. The smallest allowed stake is 1 USDC and the largest is 10 000 USDC. Both players put up the same amount, and both stakes are held until the match settles.
Nothing to sit down. On a settled match we take 10% of the pot and the winner receives 90%. A draw returns each player their own stake in full and we take nothing at all.
Each player has 10 minutes for the whole of a lobby match. Tournament fixtures run on their own clock, currently 5 minutes a side. A clock that reaches zero loses on time.
Send your balance to any Polygon address you like. The fee is 1% of what you withdraw, the same for everyone, and you see the amount, the fee and what actually lands before you confirm.
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