Connect Four articles
Four pieces on the game behind the board: the rules from scratch, the strategy that decides real games, the month in 1988 when two researchers proved the perfect result, and the story of how a wooden curiosity became a boxed classic.
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How to play Connect Four
The rules in full: the board, how discs fall, what counts as four in a row, and when a game is a draw.
7 min read
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How to win at Connect Four
Why the centre column decides games, how double threats work, and the odd and even row rule.
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Connect Four was solved twice in one month
Two researchers cracked the perfect result in October 1988, weeks apart, without knowing about each other.
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A short history of Connect Four
From a sea captain's legend to a 1974 boxed game, and the family of games it belongs to.
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