Snow Col Boxes

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Snow Col Boxes is a small Macintosh implementation of the classic pencil-and-paper game dots-and-boxes, written in 1995 as a class project by students of Computer Science 112 at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, under instructor Russell Baird. It was uploaded to Info-Mac alongside two sibling student projects.The gamePlayers take turns drawing a single edge between adjacent dots on a grid. Whoever closes the fourth side of a box claims it (and takes another turn). When the grid is full, the player owning the most boxes wins. Snow Col Boxes plays this on a Mac window with mouse input.Origin as courseworkThe submitter, Mark Gardner (gard9525@badger.snow.edu), uploaded a bundle of CS 112 projects in June 1995. Snow Col Boxes is one of three; the others are Snow Col Tic-Tac-Toe and Snow Col Pseudo Checkers, all credited to the same class.Preservation contextThe game survives only through the Info-Mac brd/ category. There is no commercial release, no Macintosh Garden page, and no known author beyond "a CS 112 student" — which is part of why preserving it matters.