About the game
Play Gomoku (five in a row) online
Line up exactly five stones in a row before your rival does.
Play Gomoku, or five in a row, free in your browser: the computer, a friend on one screen, or someone online. Get exactly five in a row to win.
Play vs the computer, or pass the phone to a friend, or play someone online. Free, in your browser, no sign-up.
How to play Gomoku
- 1Pick who you’re playing: the computer, a friend online with a room code, a friend on the same screen, or someone new with Quick match.
- 2Tap where two lines cross to put one of your stones there.
- 3Take turns, one stone each.
- 4Line up exactly five of your stones in a row, across, down or slanted, to win.
- 5Six or more in a row doesn't win, so play goes on.
Rules
- Gomoku, also called Gobang or five in a row, is played on a 13×13 board, one stone per turn on any empty point.
- Exactly five of your stones in a row wins: across, down or diagonal.
- Six or more in a row doesn't win, and the game goes on.
- No other restrictions: either player may make any line.
- If the board fills up and nobody has exactly five, it's a draw.