<Tr> <Th> Players </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Playing time </Th> <Td> 1 - 10 minutes </Td> </Tr> <P> Connect Four (also known as Captain's Mistress, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Four in a Row, Four in a Line and Gravitrips (in Soviet Union)) is a two - player connection game in which the players first choose a color and then take turns dropping one colored disc from the top into a seven - column, six - row vertically suspended grid . The pieces fall straight down, occupying the next available space within the column . The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own discs . Connect Four is a solved game . The first player can always win by playing the right moves . </P> <P> The game was first sold under the Connect Four trademark by Milton Bradley in February 1974 . </P>

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