Milton Bradley, Connect Four 'Pretty Sneaky, Sis' television commercial, 1977 Ī gameplay example (right), shows the first player starting Connect Four by dropping one of their yellow discs into the center column of an empty game board. But, look out – your opponent can sneak up on you and win the game! Object: Connect four of your checkers in a row while preventing your opponent from doing the same. The game was created by Howard Wexler, and first sold under the Connect Four trademark by Milton Bradley in February 1974. The first player can always win by playing the right moves. It is therefore a type of M,n,k-game (7, 6, 4) with restricted piece placement. 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. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest available space within the column. 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.
