#ConnectFour

2025-06-29
In this kind of climate, go into a cool room and play some coop with a mate.

#godzilla #connectfour #globalwarming
Zilla and i playing the game we love the most since childhood
2025-03-07

Bello Bear 7 Mar 2025 “Board Games” - If you like, share with friends and family to help the comic grow!

2024-05-01

“Your sister drops checkers into the game, trying to get four in a row, but she can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Leon?”

#BladeRunner #meme #ConnectFour

Parody of “Connect Four” tabletop game box, titled “Blade Runner: The Classic Replicant Detection Game.” The young girl has a bouffant and a lit cigarette like Rachael in the movie. Her brother sits across the table, administering the Voight-Kampff test.
2023-01-03

GameNight😎

Who didn't play #Connect4 or #ConnectFour ? Well, I did and as you can see I won.. 4 beautiful #BeeEaters in a row.

#birdsinlatin #MeropsApiaster
#Birdphotography #Birds #Birdsofthefediverse
#BirdsofMastodon #Wildlife #Wildlifephotography #Nature

4 bee-eaters in a row
2022-04-09

Amazing “Connect Fore!” Robot Challenges Your Putting Practice

We've just come across [Bithead]'s amazing, robotically-automated mashup of miniature golf and Connect Four , which also includes an AI opponent who pulls no punches in its drive to win. Connect Fore! celebrates Scotland -- the birthplace of golf, after all -- and looks absolutely fantastic.

Scotty the AI opponent uses this robotic turret to make their moves in a game of Connect Fore!

The way it works is this: players take turns putting colored balls into one of seven different holes at the far end of the table. Each hole feeds to a clear tube -- visible in the middle of the table -- which represent each of the columns in a game of Connect Four.

Each player attempts to stack balls in such a way that they create an unbroken line of four in their color, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. In a one-player game, a human player faces off against "Scotty", the computer program that chooses its moves with intelligence and fires balls from a robotic turret.

[Bithead] started this project as a learning experience, and being such a complex project, the write-up is extensive. We really recommend reading through the whole thing if you are at all interested in what goes into making such a project work.

What's particularly interesting is all of the ways in which things nearly worked, or needed nudging or fine adjustment. One might think that reliably getting a ball to enter a hole and roll down a PVC tube wouldn't be a particularly finicky task, but it turns out that all kinds of things can go wrong.

Even finding the right play surface was a challenge. [Bithead]'s first purchase from Amazon was a total waste: it looked bad, smelled bad, and balls didn't roll well on it. There are high-quality artificial turfs out there, but the good stuff gets shockingly expensive, and such a small project pretty much pigeonholes one as a nuisance customer when it comes to vendors. The challenges [Bithead] overcame serve as a reminder to keep the 80/20 rule (or Pareto principle) in mind when estimating what will get a project to the finish line.

Right under the page break below is a brief video tour of the completed table, and after that, you can watch a game in action as [Bithead] faces off against Scotty the AI. Curious about the inner workings? The last video has some build details that fill in a few blanks from the write-up.

We've seen an automated Chess table before, but this is an entirely other, utterly fantastic level of work.

#artificialintelligence #games #robotshacks #ai #automated #automatedopponent #connectfour #golf #robotic #scottish

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connect four cock block rage quit...

#ragequit #dog #connectfour #animatedgif

2021-04-24

connect four cock block rage quit...

connect four cock block rage quit...

#ragequit #dog #connectfour #animatedgif

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