An advanced, beautifully colorized terminal-based implementation of the classic Dots & Boxes pen-and-paper game. Written in pure Python, it supports both local two-player matches and matches against a smart heuristic AI with three distinct difficulty levels.

• 🎨 Vibrant Terminal Styling: Uses ANSI color escape codes for rendering player blocks, lines, points, and turns in eye-catching colors (Blue, Red, Yellow, Cyan, Green).
• 👥 Multiple Game Modes:
  • Player vs Player: Battle locally against a friend.
  • Player vs AI: Pit your skills against a computer opponent.
• 🧠 Smart AI Opponent: Features three AI levels utilizing custom decision-making heuristics:
  • 🟢 Easy: Makes completely random moves.
  • 🟡 Intermediate: Prioritizes completing a box and avoids leaving dangerous 3-sided boxes that would allow the player to score.
  • 🔴 Hard: Scores all available moves dynamically, prioritizing game winning configurations, blocking player gains, and positioning itself strategically.
• 📏 Custom Board Sizes: Play on boards ranging from 2x2 up to 8x8 dots.
• ⚙️ Accurate Ruleset: Completing a box grants the scoring player an immediate extra turn!
• 🛡️ Robust Validation: Built-in protections against out-of-bounds coordinates, duplicate moves, invalid choices, and negative inputs.

• Python 3.x
• No external libraries are needed (uses standard Python library built-in modules: random, time).
• Note: Works best in terminal environments that support ANSI color output.

1. Navigate to the game directory:

   cd games/Dots-Boxes-AI

2. Run the script:

   python Dots-Boxes-AI.py

Draw lines between adjacent dots on the grid. When a player draws the fourth line closing a 1x1 box, they score a point and earn another turn. The player with the most boxes filled when no more lines can be drawn wins!

1. The board is printed showing dots (•), drawn horizontal lines (━━), drawn vertical lines (┃), and completed boxes (■).
2. Input the line direction: h for horizontal or v for vertical.
3. Input the Row and Column coordinates of the line:
   • For Horizontal lines: Row range is 0 to size, Col range is 0 to size-1.
   • For Vertical lines: Row range is 0 to size-1, Col range is 0 to size.

•  •  •
┃■ ┃  
•━━•  •
   ┃  
•  •━━•

Note: In the actual terminal, the dots, lines, and boxes are dynamically colored blue for Player 1 and red for Player 2/AI.

Dots-Boxes-AI/
├── Dots-Boxes-AI.py
└── README.md

Contributed as part of GSSoC (GirlScript Summer of Code).
Repository: python-mini-project