What is connect 5  game ?

Connect 5  is almost like tic-tac-toe. However, here, you will play in a 13 by13 ( or 15 by 15 ) grid, instead of a 3x3 grid; and you will try to connect 5 of your markers on a line to win. You can make your connections horizontally, vertically, or along any slanted lines.

P.S.  The three buttons on the top are very useful and their purposes are:

New:  for starting a New game;

Option:  for bringing up the game Options dialog box;

Undo:  for taking back you move during a game.

Other Help Topics :

Levels of play

Watch out feature

Strategy


CONNECT5 Levels of play

Levels of play

There are five levels  you can choose to play. In Levels 1,2, 3 and 4 you play in a 13 by 13 grid, but in Level 5, you play in a 15 by 15 grid. Levels 1 and 2 are basically practice levels, where you can get familiar with the game. There is a significant jump in terms of difficulty from level 2 to level 3. Also, you can switch among levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 during a game, but changing to level 5 requires a different game board and therefore requires a new game.


CONNECT5 What out feature

Watch out feature

To help you better defend yourself, whenever there is a need for defense the status bar will display  Watch Out  to alert you. If you dont defend when the  Watch Out  warning is on the status bar, you will get  Checkmate  before your next move, and subsequently lose. If you want play the game  fairly, i.e. you want rely on yourself for defense, you can disable  Watch Out  warnings from the game option dialog or from a menu choice under main menu Tools. Also, if the  Watch Out  feature is enabled, on levels 1, 2 and 3, when you get a chance to win by one move, there will be a message saying: You can win by this move   on status bar to alert you so that you wont miss that chance to win that game.


CONNECT5 Strategy

Strategy

Connect 5 is a precariously fast paced game. When you play at higher levels you might at first be discouraged by your inability to win. There is actually a great deal of chance to win. The key to winning a game is to attack. You make an attack by putting 3 or 4 pieces in a row. The reason that attacking would greatly increase your  chance of winning is that you are forcing the other side to put its pieces scattered while you can have your pieces relatively together thus increase your chance to make multiple connections of 3  pieces in a row or 4 pieces in a row.

Technically speaking, the only way you can win a game is to make a double connections of 3 pieces in a row or 4 pieces in a row, ( a double threat ) so that one of the threats could become a checkmate. This is also the way computer wins over you. It is rather difficult to premeditate on how precisely you can get a double threat, but if you simply keep attacking whenever you have a chance and try to put your pieces together, sooner or later you will naturally get a double threat and win.