As a ten year old I played a game like this one but where you chose a fixed grid, and took turns filling in the edges of the component small squares. The winner

As a ten year old I played a game like this one but where you chose a fixed grid, and took turns filling in the edges of the component small squares. The winner enclosed the most squares, I think! As a chorister in a C11th cathedral there was a lot of time to be spent not listening to sermons, so we devised (or learned from someone's dad) these fun games. I think we usually used an 8x8 grid. Edit: here we are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes