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Dots and Boxes game we used to play as kids in Tunisia
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HN · launched Jul 30, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: online board and casual games · 180 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 180 launches in online board and casual games →
Could you build this?
Yes Dots and Boxes is a simple turn-based combinatorial grid game easily implemented in pure HTML/Canvas/React with standard minimax or random AI opponents.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 303 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #278 of 304 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
- capy-boba · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Club Pigeon · hn · 2026-10-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Gridl · hn · 2026-02-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Purple Word · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- games · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Unflip · hn · 2025-11-11 · 184 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Gembop, a block-placement puzzle game in 2D and 3D · hn · 2026-10-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- BinduBox · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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