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Four in a Row

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Four In A Row

Get four or more in a line on a square grid with gravity: stones fall down a column until they rest.

Inventors: Ned Strongin, Howard Wexler

Rules

Related commercial game: BoardGameGeek: Connect Four. Overlines count as wins (four or more).

Variants

10×10 board

Larger grid (standard-10).

Swap-1st / Swap-2 / Swap-5 openings

Pie-style colour swaps after the first stone, after a three-stone offer, or after each of the first five stones.

Edge-grow-4

You may also grow inward from the other three edges: place in the first empty cell from top, left, or right, not only from the bottom.

Interior-gravity-4

You may click any empty cell; the stone then slides toward the nearest edge (or along the diagonal toward a corner when equidistant) until it sits against a stone or the rim.

Clear

If an entire edge row or column is full, it is cleared and remaining stones shift that way — unless a four-in-a-row already exists, which wins first. With four-edge placement, any full edge line can clear.

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