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- Salford, UK
Wasting time on an online game, I found myself thinking about the games we used to play on paper when I was a kid. Did anyone else ever play this one:
You mark out a grid of dots, 10 x 10. (or if posh, use graph paper). Players (it was normally 2, but no reason it couldn't be more), then take it in turns to draw in a line between two of the dots (no diagonals). If you managed to draw the fourth side of a square, you get to put your initial in it. At the end, (all the dots joined to make a grid of 9 x 9 squares) the one with most squares, wins... Obviously, at first, it's a bit random, but as the lines get added, you start to think more tactically - and sometimes one line can bag you two squares...
Seems terribly dull compared with Ninja Car Theft 8, or whatever, but I used to love it. The hardest part was persuading a parent to draw the grid of 100 dots... (or drawing it yourself - that bit was dull).
And there was the usual hangman and stuff too.
You mark out a grid of dots, 10 x 10. (or if posh, use graph paper). Players (it was normally 2, but no reason it couldn't be more), then take it in turns to draw in a line between two of the dots (no diagonals). If you managed to draw the fourth side of a square, you get to put your initial in it. At the end, (all the dots joined to make a grid of 9 x 9 squares) the one with most squares, wins... Obviously, at first, it's a bit random, but as the lines get added, you start to think more tactically - and sometimes one line can bag you two squares...
Seems terribly dull compared with Ninja Car Theft 8, or whatever, but I used to love it. The hardest part was persuading a parent to draw the grid of 100 dots... (or drawing it yourself - that bit was dull).
And there was the usual hangman and stuff too.