Palon: Daily Dots Puzzle

Palon is a daily territory puzzle, a logic game played with dots on graph paper. You place blue dots and close fences around the red ones. Every move can be planned, and there is no timer. Red dots arrive on a schedule. Each one is drawn on the board before it lands, with the number of turns until it falls. Your dots join in all eight directions, and a closed fence catches every red dot inside it. A day lasts 12 turns, and you place one piece each turn. You score one point for each red dot you catch. If you build where a red dot would land, it never arrives. There is one new board a day, the same for everyone, in three difficulties. Easy shows the arrivals five turns ahead, standard three and hard two. A red dot you have not been shown yet never stops you from placing a piece. The computer plays every board before you see it. A board with too little to catch is thrown out and dealt…