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Connect Four

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. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest…

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Age range
6+
Designers
Howard Wexler Ned Strongin
Genres
Connection game
Languages
English
Materials required
a playing board and tokens
Other names
4 in a Row The Captain's Duel The Captain's Mistress

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Connect Four

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples75
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

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Connect Four

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related to Popular culture · 12
Connect Four → Basketball, Broadcaster, Connect, David Bowie, Family Game Night, In, Leo, NME, On The Hub's, Stuart Maconie, Vincent, Way Out
related to External links · 10
Connect Four → Archived, BoardGameGeekConnect Four, Brady, Connect, December, MathWorldHaran, Numberphile, Presh, Retrieved December, Talwalkar
related to Other versions · 9
Connect Four → Giant Connect Four, Hasbro, Internet, It, Microvision, Robert Hoffberg, Texas Instruments, The, With
related to Pop 10 · 6
Connect Four → Before, Gameplay, If, Pop, Taking, The
related to Rule variations · 6
Connect Four → Cylinder-Infinite Connect-Four, Infinite Connect-Four, Many, Size, The, There
related to Gameplay · 5
Connect Four → If, Milton Bradley, Pretty Sneaky, Sis, The
related to Five-in-a-Row · 4
Connect Four → The, The Five-in-a-Row, This, Two
related to PopOut · 4
Connect Four → During, PopOut, Popping, The
related to Power Up · 4
Connect Four → In, Other, Power Checkers, When
is a · 2
Connect Four → game played on a 6 high, solved game

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Important terminology

game four connect player board players row discs first one gameplay pieces also grid color column play get colored win

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Connect FourAge range6+1.00infobox
Connect FourDesignersHoward Wexler Ned Strongin1.00infobox
Connect FourGenresConnection game1.00infobox
Connect FourLanguagesEnglish1.00infobox
Connect FourMaterials requireda playing board and tokens1.00infobox
Connect FourOther names4 in a Row The Captain's Duel The Captain's Mistress1.00infobox
Connect FourPlayers21.00infobox
Connect FourPlaying time10 min1.00infobox
Connect FourPublication1974; 52 years ago (1974)1.00infobox
Connect FourPublishersMilton Bradley Hasbro1.00infobox
Connect FourYears active1974–present1.00infobox
Connect Fouris asolved game0.90text
Connect Fouris agame played on a 6 high0.90text

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