Games

Connect Four

Drop your pieces and get four in a row: across, down or slanted. Members can challenge each other in the channel, or play Sparrow in private on Easy, Normal or Hard. Sparrow keeps wins, draws and losses, with a leaderboard, and can give Leveling XP for a win.

Getting started

Open Games, then Connect Four, on the dashboard. From there you can turn the game on or off, choose who can play, set how long members wait between games with Sparrow, turn on Leveling XP, and see the top players.

Put Connect Four on a Games panel, a message with a button for each game you pick, from Games Panels on the dashboard. Members press Connect Four to play Sparrow, or use /connect4 play. To play another member, use /connect4 challenge. Who can play counts for both players.

How to play

The board is a picture with 7 columns and 6 rows. Press a column button, 1 to 7, to drop your piece: it falls to the lowest empty spot. A full column's button greys out. Get four of your pieces in a row across, down or slanted to win. If the board fills up first, it's a draw. The first player is 🟡 gold and the second is 🔵 blue, and the last piece dropped has a small dot.

Playing Sparrow

Press Connect Four on a Games panel or use /connect4 play. The game is private: only you see it. Pick how hard Sparrow plays:

• Easy: Sparrow mostly plays at random.
• Normal: Sparrow plays well, but slips now and then.
• Hard: Sparrow thinks several moves ahead. It can be beaten, but it takes a plan.

Sparrow always takes a winning move and always blocks yours, on every level. Who goes first is random. There's a Give up button during the game, and Play again at the end. You can also play Sparrow in Sparrow's DMs with /connect4 play, without XP or stats.

Playing a member

Use /connect4 challenge. Pick a member, or leave it empty for an open challenge anyone can accept. Sparrow posts the challenge in the channel. A picked member presses Accept or Decline; an open challenge goes to the first member who presses Accept. The challenger can take it back. A challenge that isn't accepted ends after 2 minutes.

Once accepted, both play on that message, and only the player whose move it is can press. Who goes first is random, and the message says whose move it is.

• No move for 3 minutes forfeits the game.
• Either player can press Forfeit to give the game up.
• When someone wins, the winning four are outlined, and Rematch challenges the other player again.

Wait between games

Admins choose how long a member waits between games with Sparrow. It's 5 minutes by default. You can set it to none, or to any length you like, on the Connect Four page on the dashboard. Games against members have no wait.

Leveling XP

A win can give Leveling XP, through the same game XP setup as the other games. Turn it on under Leveling, Earning XP, Games, or on the Connect Four page. Both show the same setup.

• 25 XP by default for a win against a member, or a win against Sparrow on Normal or Hard. You can change the amount.
• No XP for games on Easy, for draws, or for games in DMs.
• The game XP limit counts Connect Four too: once a member has earned that much from games in an hour, day, week or month, games stop giving them XP until the next one.

It's free.

Stats and leaderboard

Sparrow keeps each member's wins, draws and losses per server: against members, with a win streak, and separately against Sparrow. /connect4 stats shows yours, or someone else's. /connect4 leaderboard ranks members by wins against other members. The Connect Four page on the dashboard shows the top players too, and admins can reset the totals.

Turning it off

Admins can turn Connect Four off on the dashboard. Its button on Games panels greys out and the panels say it's off.

Permissions

Connect Four needs View Channel, Send Messages, Embed Links and Attach Files, since the board is a picture. See Access & Permissions.

Free and Premium

Connect Four is free. There are no Premium parts. See Premium for what Premium adds elsewhere.

Commands

Want an overview instead? See the Connect Four module page → · See every command →