Connect Four is a two-player connection game in which players take turns dropping colored discs into a vertical grid, with the discs falling to the lowest available space in the chosen column, and the first player to form a line of four of their own discs in a row, column or diagonal wins. It was first sold under the Connect Four name by Milton Bradley in 1974, building on a long tradition of grid-based alignment games. The game has been mathematically solved, and with perfect play the first player is known to be able to force a win.
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Originating Region Game TypeBoard game, abstract strategy, connection game 1 Governing BodyNo governing body; commercially owned by Hasbro, successor to Milton Bradley. 1 Sport
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Tic-tac-toe, Games Connect Four and tic-tac-toe both belong to the broader family of grid-based alignment games, in which players win by placing a run of their own marks or pieces in a row, though Connect Four was not directly derived from tic-tac-toe.
Source The Oxford History of Board Games
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1. Wikipedia, Connect Four
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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.
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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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Connect Four is a two-player connection game in which players take turns dropping colored discs into a vertical grid, with the discs falling to the lowest available space in the chosen column, and the first player to form a line of four of their own discs in a row, column or diagonal wins. It was first sold under the Connect Four name by Milton Bradley in 1974, building on a long traditi
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The Oxford History of Board Games
Oxford University Press, 1999Associated With: Tic-tac-toe
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