boxes

Acrylic      Steal Three-Way-Calling, Call Waiting and programmable

             Call Forwarding on old 4-wire phone systems

Aqua         Drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in-trace/trap-trace

Beige        Lineman's hand set

Black        Allows the calling party to not be billed for the call

             placed

Blast        Phone microphone amplifier

Blotto       Supposedly shorts every fone out in the immediate area

Blue         Emulate a true operator by seizing a trunk with a 2600hz

             tone

Brown        Create a party line from 2 phone lines

Bud          Tap into your neighbors phone line

Chartreuse   Use the electricity from your phone line

Cheese       Connect two phones to create a diverter

Chrome       Manipulate Traffic Signals by Remote Control

Clear        A telephone pickup coil and a small amp used to make free

             calls on Fortress Phones

Color        Line activated telephone recorder

Copper       Cause crosstalk interference on an extender

Crimson      Hold button

Dark         Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone

Dayglo       Connect to your neighbors phone line

Divertor     Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone

DLOC         Create a party line from 2 phone lines

Gold         Dialout router

Green       Emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return, and Ringback tones

Infinity     Remotely activated phone tap

Jack         Touch-Tone key pad

Light        In-use light

Lunch        AM transmitter

Magenta      Connect a remote phone line to another remote phone line

Mauve        Phone tap without cutting into a line

Neon         External microphone

Noise        Create line noise

Olive        External ringer

Party        Create a party line from 2 phone lines

Pearl        Tone generator

Pink         Create a party line from 2 phone lines

Purple       Telephone hold button

Rainbow      Kill a trace by putting 120v into the phone line (joke)

Razz         Tap into your neighbors phone

Red          Make free phone calls from pay phones by generating

             quarter tones

Rock         Add music to your phone line

Scarlet      Cause a neighbors phone line to have poor reception

Silver       Create the DTMF tones for A, B, C and D

Static       Keep the voltage on a phone line high

Switch       Add hold, indicator lights, conferencing, etc..

Tan          Line activated telephone recorder

Tron         Reverse the phase of power to your house, causing your

             electric meter to run slower

TV Cable     "See" sound waves on your TV

Urine        Create a capacitative disturbance between the ring and

             tip wires in another's telephone headset

Violet       Keep a payphone from hanging up

White        Portable DTMF keypad

Yellow       Add an extension phone

Boxes is a classic paper and pencil game for two or more players. To begin, make an 8 by 8 grid of dots on a piece of paper.

The players take it in turn to draw a line from one dot to another dot which is horizontally or vertically adjacent. If this line does not complete the fourth side of a square, play passes to the next player. If this line does complete the fourth side of a square, the player writes their initial in the square and takes another turn.

Play continues in this way until all 49 squares have been claimed. The winner is the person who captured the greatest number of squares.

In the early stages of the game it is best not to complete the third side of any square, as this will mean that your opponent will be able to claim the square in their turn. Consequently, between experienced players, the game tends to a reach a point where all the squares have two of their sides taken. Eventually, one person will be forced to draw in a third side, and this will usually result in the next player being able to claim many squares in one go.

The strategy lies in careful play at the start of the game. Try to make sure that one of your opponents has to be the first to draw in a third side. Often it is beneficial to sacrifice one or two boxes to your opponents in order for you to claim many more boxes on your subsequent turn.

There is no reason why boxes has to be played on an 8 by 8 grid, and experienced players may use 10 by 10 or more.