Connect Four

Drop discs into the blue frame and make a line of four before your opponent.

Getting a board

Craft a Connect Four board and fit it into a Small Game Table. Place matching Game Chairs facing the table, then take a seat.

Materials

1 ×Redstone
7 ×Any planks
1 ×Blue wool

How to play

Open the fitted board to make your moves. How to play in the side tray gives you the same lessons with illustrations inside the game.

Start here

Drop a disc: Choose a column. Your disc falls to the lowest space. — **Drop a disc**
Choose a column. Your disc falls to the lowest space.

Build a stack

Gravity: Discs land on top of the discs already there. — **Gravity**
Discs land on top of the discs already there.

Make a line

Three in a row: Set up three discs. The next drop can make four. — **Three in a row**
Set up three discs. The next drop can make four.

Four wins

Drop four: Drop beside three matching discs to make four. — **Drop four**
Drop beside three matching discs to make four.

Four connected: Four discs in a row wins: across, up, or diagonal. — **Four connected**
Four discs in a row wins: across, up, or diagonal.

Watch the other side

Block: If the other player has three, block their winning column. — **Block**
If the other player has three, block their winning column.

Rules in more detail

Gravity and a full frame

The frame has seven columns and six rows. A column choice places your disc in its lowest free space; you cannot choose an unsupported cell above it. A full column is unavailable. Winning lines can be horizontal, vertical or either diagonal. If all forty-two spaces fill without a line of four, the result is a draw.

Keep playing

Use Rematch after the result to play again. To pause an unfinished match, the table owner can remove and keep its board.

See seats and solo play for multiplayer and Play alone, or item stakes if you want to agree on a pot.