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Dots and Boxes - Dots and Hexagons - Reviews standard rules, and introduces the analogous game on a hexagonal board.
www.drking.worldonline.co.uk/hexagons/dots
Dots-and-Boxes Analysis - Analysis program and results.
www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/boxes
Postings from rec.games.abstract about Dots and Boxes - Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature.
www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/games/other/dots_n_boxes
Talk by Elwyn Berlekamp: Dots and Boxes, and related Mathematical Games - Streaming-video hour-long special seminar held at MSRI on September 13, 1999 describes the mathematics behind winning strategies.
www.msri.org/activities/events/9900/Berlekamp
Talk by Katherine Scott: Loony Dots and Boxes Endgame - Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes a particular type of endgame which arises frequently in practice and can be solved in polynomial time.
www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2000/gametheory/scott/1
Vanishing Squares Software - Video game, online game, and paper rules for Vanishing Squares and Vegas Squares.
prime-fe2.lvcm.com/elohn/squares/index.htm