Gomuku
Gomuku is a Japanese tic-tack-toe game that requires players to claim intersections of lines on a grid.
By: Trish Kuffner, author of The Children's Busy Book
Gomuku
Materials
- One pencil per player
- Paper
Directions
- This game, a Japanese version of tick-tack-toe, requires two players.
- One plays Xs; the other plays Os.
- Draw a grid of nineteen vertical and nineteen horizontal lines on paper.
- The players take turns claiming the intersections of the lines rather than the spaces.
- The first player to claim five intersections in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row wins.