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Logic puzzle · Board duel

Gomoku,
five in a row wins.

The classic stone-placing duel: you play black and move first — line up five before the computer does.

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Your move — tap any empty intersection

About the game

How Gomoku works,
in short.

  1. Step 01

    Place a stone on an empty crossing.

    You play black and move first. On your turn, tap any empty crossing of the lines to place one black stone there. Stones sit on the crossings — not the squares — and once placed, a stone never moves or is removed.

  2. Step 02

    Make an unbroken line of five.

    The goal is five of your stones in a row with no gap — along a row, a column, or either diagonal. Tap an empty crossing to add a stone; the first player to connect five in any one direction wins (a longer line of six or more counts too).

  3. Step 03

    Threats win games.

    A row of three with an empty crossing at both ends — an "open three" — threatens five two different ways, so it forces your opponent to block one end. Set up two threats at once and a single block cannot stop both. The computer hunts these forks, so watch for them and build your own.

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