Click on the Play button. You will see a grid of dots, 6 x 6. When these dots are joined they make up boxes or squares, hence the name of the game. Each square is made up of 4 lines and the object of the game is to make the fourth line on each square. In the game against the computer, by doing this you claim that square and your icon (a yellow smiley face) is inserted in the centre of the square. If at the end of the game you have claimed more squares than the computer has (the computer's are marked with a red smiley face), you win. In the game you can opt for the computer to go first by clicking the OK button before doing anything else.
6 dots x 6 dots, allows a grid of 5 squares by 5 squares to be made i.e. 25. You are allowed one go each, except when you are able to add the fourth line to make a complete square, then you are allowed to continue having another go until there are no more squares to be completed. When you have completed your final square, you then have one further go to add a line. At the beginning of the game, one go each is all that is likely, but as more lines are added, it gets more difficult to add a line without making a square with three lines i.e. next player can claim with a fourth. The game then becomes as strategical as you want to make it. In the rules I know, you must complete a square when one is available but some don't play this rule and sometimes leave a single square to gain the advantage. I have therefore left it so that you can choose which rules you wish to play.
To start move your mouse pointer over the grid and you will find that yellow lines appear between the dots. Holding your mouse pointer over a line you wish to make and then clicking on it with the left button, will create that line. You must then click the OK button at the bottom of the grid to allow the computer to have it's go, in the game against the computer or player 2, red, in the game against another human. When you are able to add a fourth line and complete a square, your yellow smiley icon will automatically appear in the square and your score above will increase by one. When the computer has a go, it's line will appear in red and the OK botton will become enabled when it has finished it's go. When you add a fourth line and complete a square, this may make another 3 line square nearby. You may click on the fourth line here to make another square in the same go. This may make another square a three liner too, so carry on until you can complete no more squares, all in the same go. In this case your final go before you click the OK button,(depending on what rules you are playing) must be to add a line somewhere else on the grid, even if it means that you have just made a three line square which the computer can complete.
When the game is over and all 25 squares have been claimed you will be told who the winner is and 1 game will be added to that players total under Games. You will then be given the option to play another game.
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