Paper-and-pencil game (4)

I believe the answer is:

dots

(Other definitions for dots that I've seen before include "Very small round shapes" , "Shorter signals in the Morse code" , "Small marks" , "Tiny circular shapes" , "Short signals in Morse cods" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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