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Clover Dots and Boxes is the classic pencil-and-paper game of dots and boxes, played in a garden bed at dusk. The dots are little wooden pegs; you and Nutmeg the woodpecker take turns stretching one piece of twine between two neighbouring pegs. Close the fourth side of a box and a clover sprouts in it for you, or a red-capped mushroom for Nutmeg.
Play Nutmeg on Easy, Medium or Hard on a 3×3, 4×4 or 5×5 board, or switch to 2 Players and share one screen. Every day there is also a Daily puzzle: the same endgame for everyone, where you must end with a set number of boxes while Nutmeg plays perfectly.
Come si gioca
- On your turn, draw one line between two pegs that sit next to each other, across or up and down. Lines that are already drawn cannot be drawn again.
- When your line closes the fourth side of a box, the box is yours and you must draw another line. Close a box with that one too and you go again, so one turn can sweep a whole chain of boxes.
- When every line is drawn, the side with more boxes wins. Who starts alternates from one game to the next. A 4×4 board can end in a draw.
- Each box you take scores 10 points; a win adds 100 plus 10 for every box you won by. Medium doubles every point and Hard triples it.
- You have three clover leaves. Losing a game, or giving one up after your first line, costs a leaf; a win gives one back. The game ends when the last leaf is gone. In 2 Players there are no leaves and no score.
- In the Daily puzzle no safe lines are left. You must end with at least the number of boxes shown: 4×4 from Monday to Thursday, 5×5 from Friday to Sunday. A line that lets Nutmeg hold you below it resets the puzzle. Solve it on consecutive days to grow your streak.
Comandi
- Tastiera
- Click between two pegs to draw a line; the mouse shows the line first, in red if it would hand Nutmeg a box and in gold if it closes one. You can also drag from one peg to the next. The arrow keys move a cursor over the open lines and Space or Enter draws. U takes back your last line, H shows a hint, N starts a new game and D opens the Daily puzzle.
- Touch
- Tap between two pegs to draw a line, or press and slide to the line you want and lift your finger. Tap the board to hurry Nutmeg. Undo, Hint, New and Daily sit below the board; the buttons next to the leaves switch the level and the board size.
Consigli
- Never draw the third side of a box unless you have to: the next player simply takes it.
- Late in the game the board splits into chains and loops. When you must open one, open the shortest chain first.
- When Nutmeg opens a long chain, you can take all but the last two boxes and leave them with one line. Nutmeg takes the two, then has to open the next chain for you.
- Count the long chains (three boxes or more) before the safe lines run out: whoever is forced to open the first one usually loses.
