gomoku(6)

gomoku6

Game of 5 in a row

Overview

gomoku is a two player game were the object is to get 5 in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally on a 19 by 19 grid. By convention, X always moves first. The game will display a playing board, make the first move if randomly chosen to do so, and prompt for moves from the user. Moves are entered using the cursor, moving with arrow keys or hjkl, and selecting using space. Press 'q' or F10 to end the game.

Acknowledgements

The board display routines were based on the goref program written by Peter Langston.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2–3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0–13
  5. Arch

-D until Debian 13 (Trixie); -b until Debian 13 (Trixie); -c until Debian 13 (Trixie); -d until Debian 13 (Trixie); -u until Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Ralph Campbell

From bsd-games 3.3-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.