gomoku

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 五目 (gomoku).

Noun

gomoku (uncountable)

  1. An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces of the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of his pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.

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