"Four in a row" is a game for 2 players
where each player has a number of collared playing pieces. It's an
absorbing challenging game of vertical strategy that's easy to learn
and fun to play.
Rules
Rules are simple. The players makes moves by placing one playing
piece at the time. Each player tries to build a row of four playing
pieces in the board frame, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally
while trying to prevent his opponent from doing the same. (See figure)
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Sounds easy, but it's not! The vertical play of this game requires
the player to think ahead. The object of the game is to be the first
player to get four of your playing pieces in a row, horizontally
vertically or diagonally.
A user can choose from five different game-types to play. And
the game-types are:
1- A human player can play a game against another human player on
the same computer, i.e "Player A vs Player B".
2- A human player can play a game against an "Artificial intelligence"
(AI) player on the same computer, i.e "Player A vs Computer".
3- An "Artificial intelligence" (AI) player can play a
game against an "Artificial intelligence" (AI) player
on the same computer, i.e "Computer A vs Computer B".
4- A human player can play a game over a network against another
player situated on a different computer, i.e "Player A vs Remote
Player".
5- An AI player can play a game over a network against another player
situated on a different computer, i.e "Computer A vs Remote
Player". (See figure)
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When playing against the AI, there are three levels to choose
from:
- Normal (offensive)
- Advanced (defensive)
- Expert (defensive)
(See figure)
Playing Remote (2 PC's playing against each other)
When playing versus a remote player, you can choose either to
be a server or a client. One of the players has to be a server and
the other one a client (this is a must):
- Server: when being a server you need to specify the port number
that the server will listen to.
- Client: when choosing to be a client, you need to specify the
IP-address to the remote computer (server), and the port-number.
(See figure)
* A computer's IP-address can be received by opening a dos-prompt
and typing in the word, "ipconfig".
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