See n-in-a-row games.

• Designers: Tom Braunlich, Gary Gabrel
• Coder: ypaul
• Pente at BoardGameGeek
• Pente at Wikipedia

In Pente, players take turns placing stones on the intersections of the board. The first player to get five in a row or capture ten stones wins.

Inventors: Tom Braunlich, Gary Gabrel

See BoardGameGeek: Pente. Default 15×15. Stones on intersections. Orthogonal and diagonal lines.

standard-19.

Second stone at least four from centre (long-pro).

Colour-swap openings as named in the locale.

Capture two or three in a line (capture-2-3).

Placing inside a capturing frame removes your own stones as well (self-capture).

After a five-in-a-row, the opponent has one move to break it (overtime-capture).

• Current engine version: 20240328 (2024-03-28). On Abstract Play since 2024-04-20.

• Threatened pairs can be highlighted.

• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1295/pente