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4 unusual facts about Connect Four


Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry!/Trouble

Connect Four - a strategy game traditionally played by two people in which the players take turns in dropping alternating coloured discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid in attempt to make a line of consecutive pieces in their colour

Canberra Cavalry

Marcus Knecht was wearing 51 but fans pointed out that he should have the number 4, in allusion to the game Connect Four; and, this became his catch-cry.

Fhourstones

In computer science, Fhourstones is an integer benchmark that efficiently solves positions in the game of Connect-4.

Milton Bradley Playmate

Among the games that Cartwright eventually programmed the Playmate to learn were chess, checkers, Connect Four, Stratego, Candyland, and Mouse Trap.



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