2009 · Board game

Connect 4

Connect 4 for mobile devices.

Released: 27 November 2009
Platforms: Windows iOS
Genres: Board game
Developers: —
Publishers: EA
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player

About

Connect Four (also known as Connect 4, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Captain's Mistress, Four in a Row, Drop Four, and, in the Soviet Union, Gravitrips) is a game in which the players choose a color and then take turns dropping colored tokens into a six-row, seven-column vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest available space within the column. The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own tokens. It is therefore a type of m,n,k-game (7, 6, 4) with restricted piece placement. Connect Four is a solved game; the first player can always win by playing the right moves.

The game was created by Howard Wexler, and first sold under the Connect Four trademark by Milton Bradley in February 1974.

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Gameplay

Object: Connect four of your discs in a row while preventing your opponent from doing the same. But, look out – your opponent can sneak up on you and win the game!

A gameplay example (below right) shows the first player starting Connect Four by dropping one of their yellow discs into the center column of an empty game board. The two players then alternate turns dropping one of their discs at a time into an unfilled column, until the second player, with red discs, achieves a diagonal four in a row, and wins the game. If the board fills up before either player achieves four in a row, then the game is a draw.