Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Switch) - Game #10: Gomoku

Game #10 on our list of 51 Worldwide Classics is an abstract strategy board game from Japan during the Meiji Restoration era, Gomoku. In this game, players take turns placing a stone on an intersection of two lines on a Go board (usually 15x15 or 19x19) in an attempt to create a straight unbroken line of 5. The first player to create a line of 5 of their own pieces wins. Simple in concept, but more complex than it looks in practice. You need eyes everywhere on the board to win this game!

Personal story: As I mentioned in the Checkers episode, my checkerboard had instructions for a checker-based variation of this game, which plays exactly the same, just with less room to work with. Also, there's a variation of this game called Pente where in addition to trying to line up 5 pieces in a row you can also capture opposing pieces by sandwiching a pair of them between your pieces, and you can also win by capturing 5 pairs of enemy stones. This variation was used as the final boss puzzle in The 11th Hour (the puzzle game I brought up in the Hex episode where I got my first taste of that game).

There are four skill levels of CPU players: Normal, Hard, Amazing, and Impossible, which must be beaten in order. Beat the Impossible CPU to achieve mastery of the game. Also, there are house rules that you can turn on or off, including the Three-and-Three rule (which allows or bans a move that creates two simultaneous open lines of three), the Four-and-Four rule (same as Three-and-Three except with two lines of four), and the Overline rule (which allows or bans victory on creating a line of 6 or more, requiring a line of exactly 5 to win). Also, each time you play it, you can unlock a piece of trivia about the game. There are four pieces of trivia about Gomoku:

1. The intersections of the lines on the board are called "points". The name of the game comes from the Japanese word for "five points".
2. You might have known Nintendo got its start with hanafuda, but did you know they also produced Go boards?
3. You can buy stones made from many materials, but top-level players prefer stones made from slate and clamshells.
4. The underside of the board is sometimes recessed to ensure a pleasing sound when you drop a stone on it.
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