Play 4 in a Row online — 2 player with a friend, or against a bot. Drop discs, block your rival, and line up four before they do — across, down, or diagonally.
Play Online — with anyone
Your game is listed for anyone to join — if nobody shows up, start against a bot instead.
Or share the keyboard — red and gold take turns on this screen.
This page drops you straight into a single player game of Four in a Row against the computer at Normal difficulty — a solid club-level opponent that blocks obvious threats and punishes careless play. It is a free Connect 4® style game you can play alone, any time, with nobody to wait for.
Too easy or too hard? Hit Change Mode after a round to pick Easy (a rookie that wanders and misses blocks) or Hard (a mastermind that searches six moves deep and rarely loses to a single threat). Every bot game uses a fresh seed, so the same opening will not always get the same reply.
Normal (the default here) plays like a decent club player. Easy is a beginner that misses blocks. Hard uses a minimax search six moves deep with a strong evaluation — it will see most double threats coming, so you have to build them quietly.
Yes, but you need a plan: take the center column early, build threats on odd rows when you are red, and aim for two winning squares stacked in the same column. The strategy guide walks through each of these.
Yes — free, no download, and no account. It runs in your browser on phones, tablets, and computers.
Any time. Choose Change Mode to play two player on one screen, or start an online game and invite a friend with a link.
Spotted a bug, or have an idea for a feature or a whole new game? Tell us here — player feedback decides what we build next.
Four in a Row is an original, independent game by Play Here. It is not associated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Hasbro, and Connect 4® is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc., used here only to describe what kind of game this is.