# Copybook: Dots and Boxes

> Dots and boxes in ink. Two players, one phone — or a computer that plays to win.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.thebasementcoders.copybook](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.thebasementcoders.copybook)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.thebasementcoders.copybook`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The Basement Coders
- **Category:** GAME\_BOARD
- **Downloads:** 13
- **Version:** 1.1.14
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2026-08-31
- **Publisher country:** JP
- **Size:** 6.78 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thebasementcoders.copybook)
- **Website:** [https://thebasementcoders.github.io/](https://thebasementcoders.github.io/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://thebasementcoders.github.io/copybook/privacy.html](https://thebasementcoders.github.io/copybook/privacy.html)

## Description

Dots and boxes is the pencil-and-paper game you played in school. Draw a line<br>between two dots. Close a box and you get another turn. The player with the<br>most boxes at the end wins. Play against a friend on one phone, or against the<br>computer. It works offline.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>EVERY LINE IS DRAWN BY HAND<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>• Slide your finger to a line and lift to draw it. Until you lift, you can<br>  slide to a different line.<br>• Each line looks drawn with a real pen: a little curved, thin at the start,<br>  thicker in the middle.<br>• When you win a box, your mark is drawn inside it in your own pen.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>THREE COMPUTER OPPONENTS<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>Each one tells you how it plays before you pick it:<br><br>• EASY takes free boxes, and gives some away.<br>• MEDIUM never gives a box away while it has a safe line.<br>• HARD counts chains, and will refuse boxes to keep control. It gives up two<br>  boxes to win the rest. That is how close games are won.<br><br>The computer plays by the same rules you do. It also plays the same way every<br>time: the same board always gets the same move, so you can learn from it.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>OR PLAY THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>• Two players, one phone. Pass it back and forth.<br>• Type in your names and pick a mark each. The app keeps the score between<br>  the two of you.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>YOUR PAPER, YOUR PEN<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>• Seven board sizes, from a quick 3 × 3 to a long 9 × 9.<br>• Four papers: napkin, exercise book, graph paper, blueprint.<br>• Five marks for each player: a scribble, a round seal, a square seal, a cat<br>  and a robot. Up to six pen colors, so you can tell your boxes from theirs.<br>• Choose who starts, or take turns.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>• Works offline: on a plane, in a tunnel, on the bus.<br>• Open it and play. There is nothing to set up.<br>• Your wins, losses and draws against each difficulty, and against each friend,<br>  are saved on your phone.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>EVERYTHING IS FREE FROM THE START<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>Every board size, every difficulty, every paper and every mark is yours from<br>the first time you open the app. Pick a board and play.<br><br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br>ADS, AND ONE PAYMENT TO REMOVE THEM<br>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br><br>• Ads show only between games.<br>• One payment removes ads for good. You pay once and that is it.<br>• Everything in the game is already yours. The payment only removes ads.<br><br>Available in English, 日本語, 中文, 한국어, हिन्दी, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia,<br>Filipino and Português.

## Rankings

- #2,746,938 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.thebasementcoders.copybook.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

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