Connect 4 Online Multiplayer

How to Play Connect 4 Online Multiplayer

The goal is simple: get four of your pieces in a row before your opponent does. Horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, they all count. Whoever connects four first takes the round.

From the home screen, you pick how you want to play:

• Play Online to get matched with another player
• Play Bots to practice against the computer
• Create Room to set up your own game
• Play in Person to take on a real person instead of a bot

Every game you finish earns XP and coins, and you spend those coins in the shop on cosmetics. You start small (a fresh account starts with 90 coins), and the catalog runs from cheap items like the 50-coin Teal Board all the way up to 40,000-coin characters.

How to drop discs and win in Connect 4 Online Multiplayer

• Pick a mode from the home screen. If you hit Play Online and change your mind, click Cancel Search.
• For a bot game, choose Public or Private and set the Bot Difficulty.
• Pick your side: ghosts or pumpkins. Click the half-ghost, half-pumpkin face if you want the game to choose for you.
• Click Start Game.
• Left-click the board to drop a disc into a column (tap if you're on mobile).
• Watch the timer under your name. If it runs out, you lose your turn.
• Connect four of your pieces to win. After the game, you can share a replay, leave the room, or wait for the countdown to send you back to the lobby.

Bots, Rooms, and Ways to Play

When you choose to play bots, you'll face bot opponents like Bulby and Rival Hare, and you can set the difficulty before you start (Average is one of the options). Just know the difficulty level isn't constant so it will get more difficult. The room panel shows a difficulty number during the game, and it can change, so one bot match might feel easier or tougher than the last. It's still the best place to warm up before you take on a real person.

If you want to play with someone specific, Create Room gives you an invite code, and your friend can get in with Join by Code. You can also click Show Rooms to see what's open right now. Rooms can be Public or Private, so you control who gets in.

XP and Leveling Up

Every game feeds two XP bars: one for 4 in a Row Connect itself and one for your overall account. A single win against a bot was worth +64 game XP and +12 account XP. The first game level takes 150 XP, and the first account level takes 500, so you'll level up after just a few games. Hover over the level icons at the top of the screen to see your current level and how much XP you need to reach the next one.

The Shop: Coins, Gems, and Rarity

You earn coins by playing games, and you spend them on items in the shop. Gems buy unique cosmetics, and the game jokes that they're scientifically proven to make you cooler. Hit the GET GEMS button at the top of the shop if you want more.

Items come in Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Epic rarities, and some are on sale with discounts from 10% to 50% off. The shop refreshes on a countdown timer, so if you don't see something you like, check back later.

Here's what's in the shop:

Cursors range from the 10,000-coin Hand Cursor to the 30,000-coin Kebab and Marker Cursors, while gem cursors like the Pen Cursor cost 200 gems. Frames (like the Pirate Frame, Crab Frame, and Cat Headset Frame) dress up your profile picture. Chat Colors are the cheap entry point: Mint Whisper is 280 coins, Seafoam Breeze is 220, and Silver is 100 gems.

The shop also carries items for other games, like Carrom boards and pieces, Checkers pieces, Chess boards and piece sets, Foonopoly tokens, and Foony Brawl Fighters (Tad is 4,000 coins, Shelly and Tava are 40,000 each). There's also a Marketplace button next to the shop if you want to look beyond the current lineup.

Ghosts vs. Pumpkins: The Halloween Theme

For a limited time, the board has a full Halloween makeover: witch hat, bubbling cauldron, broom, jack-o'-lanterns, and tombstones around the frame. Instead of plain discs, one side plays ghosts and the other plays pumpkins. Hover over your ghost and you'll see it's called the Boo Piece, marked Unsellable. The Halloween look is seasonal, so enjoy it while it lasts. The game keeps getting new content, so expect more to show up.

Chat and Community

Every game has a chat panel on the right where you can type to your opponent, and there's a Join our Discord button on the home screen if you want to find other players. The game gives you a random username, which keeps you anonymous from the start.

Like any online game with open chat, not everybody's going to be pleasant. If someone gets weird or rude, you don't have to stick around: click Leave room and move on. For games with people you actually know, use a Private room and share the code directly.Similar games

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Release Date

July 2022

Platform

Web browser (desktop and mobile)

Controls

Use the left mouse button to place the discs or tap if you're playing on mobile.