Connect Four

Connect Four

Other names	4 in a Row The Captain's Duel The Captain's Mistress
Designers	Howard Wexler[1][2][3] Ned Strongin[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Publishers	Milton Bradley Hasbro
Publication	1974; 50 years ago (1974)
Years active	1974–?
Genres	Connection game
Languages	English
Players	2
Playing time	10'
Age range	6+

Connect Four (also known as Connect 4, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Captain's Mistress, Four in a Row, Drop Four, and Gravitrips in the Soviet Union) 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. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest available space within the column. The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own tokens. It is therefore a type of M,n,k-game (7, 6, 4) with restricted piece placement. Connect Four is a solved game. The first player can always win by playing the right moves.

The game was created by Howard Wexler, and first sold under the Connect Four trademark^[10] by Milton Bradley in February 1974.