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Jake

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Stop-Gate

Be the last player to draw a line

For this game you need a pencil and some graph paper. If you only have blank paper, you can draw a grid of dots much like in the "Dots and Boxes" game.

Now one player gets vertical lines and the other gets horizontal lines. You may only draw lines in the direction that you have been assigned. Take turns connecting two adjacent dots (if you are using graph paper, the intersections are your dots). Only one line may connect to each dot. So, once a dot is used once you can never use it again.

The winner is the last person to place a line. There is a lot of strategy in blocking out places where your opponent cannot draw their line.

Flags: Very Short (0-60 mins), With a Friend, Children, Teens, Adults, Seniors, Indoors, At Home, Morning, Day, Night, Sunny, Snowy, Rainy