found: Work cat.: 00033185: The dots-and-boxes game, c2000:CIP galley (a 2 player paper and pencil game starting with a rectangular array of dots, the players take turns connecting 2 adjacent dots horizontally or vertically, attempting to complete the 4th side of a square and claiming the box by initialing it; the object is to have completed the most boxes at game's end)
found: Solomon, E. Games with pencil and paper, c1993:p. 37 (Boxes, an enclosing game)
found: Oakley, R. Games with papers and pencils, c1989:p. 35 (Boxes is another game for two which uses squares)
found: Alltheweb search engine, May 11, 2000(titles of web sites: Dots-and-boxes)