Stake Your Claim (1889)

About Stake Your Claim

The game, which is known by many names and has been released in many versions, was invented in 1889 by the French mathematician François Edouard Anatole Lucas and first named La Pipopipette. Boxes is a plasticised version of a game we used to call Dots and Dashes. In the paper and pencil version, you draw a grid of dots and then each player must alternately draw dashes joining adjacent vertical or horizontal dots. If you are able to complete a square, you mark it as yo…

Mechanics: Enclosure, Paper-and-Pencil · Designer: Edouard Lucas

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