Games / Four in a Row
Four in a row
Four in a Row: red and yellow discs against the computer or a friend at your screen
Four in a Row is a browser version of the disc-dropping game, credited on Poki to Codethislab and published there on 11 March 2019. It needs no account. The grid has 7 columns and 6 rows, and the opponent is the computer or a person sitting next to you.
- Players1–2
- One game2–5 est.
- Age rule16+ (host)
The button goes to Four in a Row on poki.com, where the title screen came up on 10 November 2026. One disc was dropped against the computer and one in the two-player mode; no game was played to the end.
- Maker and host
- Codethislab, as credited by Poki; hosted on Poki
- Online since
- 11 March 2019 on Poki; game files last updated on 25 November 2020
- Players at a table
- One person against the computer, or two people sharing a device
- One game takes
- No published figure; 2 to 5 minutes (est.), since the grid holds 42 discs
- Live or by turns
- By turns, with no timer on a move. A stopwatch counts up
- Account
- Not needed. The game never asks who you are
- Money and adverts
- Nothing for sale on the screens opened. The Poki page showed 2 empty advert slots, and no video came before the game
- Paid random items
- None
- Age rule
- Poki's rules, as served outside the UK, say 16 and older. No app-store rating found
- Chat
- None: nobody else is online in the game
- On a phone
- Poki lists it for mobile browsers; not tested
- Grid
- 7 columns by 6 rows
- Rating on Poki
- 4.2 out of 5 from 411,953 votes: 329,681 likes and 82,272 dislikes. Poki names no period
- Poki categories
- Multiplayer, 2 Player and 1v1, which on the screens opened means two people at one device
How a game of Four in a Row goes
A title screen with one play button leads to “Choose game mode” and two picture buttons without words: a person facing a robot, and a person facing a person.
The robot button opened a blue grid of 7 columns and 6 rows. One yellow disc already lay in the bottom row, because the computer had moved first. The label read “Player turn” beside a red disc.
A click on the fourth column dropped our red disc to the bottom. The computer put a yellow disc on top of it and the label came back to the player. The side that lines up 4 of its discs wins; Poki's description says “get four in a row to score”.
The second button is for two people at one computer. After one red disc the label changed to “Player 1 turn” with a yellow disc beside it, so the colours take turns on the same screen.
Three buttons during play, and none of them sells anything
During a game the screen has a sound button, a restart arrow and a close button. No shop, coins or prices appeared on any screen. Poki lists the price as 0 and links no app-store edition.
The Poki page had 2 slots marked Advertisement, both empty during the check, and no video played before the game.
The code of the page carries two advert timers, 120,000 and 180,000. Poki does not document them. Read as milliseconds they would mean a first advert break after 2 minutes of play and another every 3. The check was shorter than that, so breaks between games were neither seen nor ruled out.
No strangers: the second player sits next to you
Four in a Row has no online mode on the screens opened. The opponent is the computer or a person at the same keyboard, so there is no chat, no nickname and no lobby.
Poki files the game under Multiplayer Games, 2 Player Games and 1v1 Games. Here that means two people sharing one device.
No app-store edition is linked, so no PEGI or App Store rating was found. Poki's rules, in the version served outside the UK, put the site at 16 and older; the Play well page explains why that figure is not confirmed for British readers. On screen there is a plastic grid with red and yellow discs and nothing else.
The stopwatch, the missing levels and the age of the files
A stopwatch under the grid counts up from 00:00. It measures the game and does not limit it: there is no countdown and no timer on a move.
No difficulty levels were offered for the computer. How strong it is was not measured, since the game was not played to the end.
Poki dates the game's files to 25 November 2020. The page itself was edited on 10 September 2026, and the game loaded and played on 10 November 2026.
Sound and phone play were not tested.