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House rules
Rowan Four
Drop discs into a seven-column wooden rack and be first to line up four, across, down or diagonally. Three opponents a day, and a faster win scores higher.
- Room
- Boards
- Game
- Drop four
- Made for
- 1999
Play Rowan Four
Free, no sign-up. Mouse, touch or keyboard.
How to play
- Click a column to drop a disc.
- Left/Right + Enter drop.
- U undo, H hint, N next round, Q end.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Tap a column to drop a disc.
- Undo, Hint and End sit along the bottom.
Take as long as you like. Pause any time with P; calm mode turns off every flash and shake.
Maker’s note
The drop-and-line-up game is a coffee-break classic, and the best games are over in a dozen moves. Ours is a rowan-wood rack with amber and walnut discs, seven columns by six rows, played against three seeded opponents a day. Easy ones miss a threat now and then; medium never misses a win or a block; hard sees several moves ahead. Win quickly and the margin counts. Ranked play is the day's seeded line-up of computer opponents, easiest to hardest: wins, winning margin and fewest moves score points, a quick finish earns a small time bonus, and every undo or hint costs points. Each run is stored as a list of moves, so the server replays the whole set, the opponents' replies included, before it counts. The free game lets you pick Easy, Medium, Hard or two players on one device (two-player games are unranked).
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 160
- 2150
- 3250
- 4360
- 5480
- 6620
- 7780
- 8950
Each target is a step up. Reach the last one and you have outplayed the workshop.
In the Boards room
Board and tile games across a quiet table, one move at a time.
Your hands
Your best ten are kept in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked hand, so clearing site data clears the list.
