Gomoku is a classic East Asian board game: the first to line up five stones wins. Simple to learn, hard to master. Play online for a rank that means something, climbing from Kyu 7 to Dan 2 — or take on a friend over one phone, or the computer at five strengths.
Play online for a rank that means something, climbing from Kyu 7 to Dan 2. Or pass one phone back and forth, or start a slow game with a friend.
Beginner through Master: a forgiving opponent that lets you find your footing, up to one that punishes a loose open three.
Game review walks back through your moves and shows the point the game changed hands, with the stronger line beside your own.
Every variant is built in, on boards from 9×9 to 19×19, and a guided lesson explains each one.
Freestyle. Five or more of your stones in a line, in any direction, and the game is yours.
Black moves first and would win with perfect play, so Black alone is barred from a double three, a double four, or an overline.
The Korean game. Five exactly — a sixth stone on the line makes it worth nothing.
The Vietnamese game. Five in a row, and at least one end has to be free — block both and the line is dead.
Gomoku with captures. Pinch two enemy stones between two of yours and they come off the board. Five pairs wins as surely as five in a row.
Matchmaking — ranked and casual alike — is classic gomoku with the Swap2 opening, so every rated game is played on the same terms. The other four variants, and every board size, are open in games against the computer and in friend games, online or passing one phone.
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