The Art and Science of Playing Connect Four with Friends

As I sat down to play Connect Four with my friends, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The game is always a blast, especially when played with friends who are equally passionate about it. But what really got me going was the sleek design of the new back of the Connect Four box. It's just so freaking cool! I think they should have done it the opposite way almost, but I guess that's just the beauty of innovation.

I started to examine the new design more closely, taking in the subtle details and colors that made each side unique. The words on the back were a bit hard to read, but once I got a closer look, I realized they were actually quite clever. It was like a little puzzle waiting to be solved. I felt a sense of satisfaction as I picked up the game and gave it a few spins, testing its smoothness and balance. Ah, yes! This is what I'm talking about.

But just as we were getting started, my friend Matt pulled out an old Connect Four board from his bag, revealing a blank space where the usual instructions should have been. It was like he had pulled out a time machine, transporting us back to our childhood days of playing this classic game. I couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of it, and Matt couldn't resist teasing me about my lack of nostalgia.

As we began to play, things quickly took a turn for the unexpected. We started using a new strategy that involved placing blocks in a way that would prevent our opponents from winning. It was like a game of cat and mouse, with each of us trying to outmaneuver the other. The tension was palpable as we carefully considered every move, weighing the risks and rewards of each action.

But just when it seemed like I had finally figured it out, Matt pulled off an incredible play that left me stunned. He called it a "power move," but I'm not entirely sure what he meant by that. All I knew was that I was impressed, and my confidence began to waver. In the end, it all came down to who could make the most strategic moves, with neither of us able to outmaneuver the other.

As we played on, our banter and laughter filled the room, punctuated by the occasional shout of excitement or frustration. It was clear that we were all having a blast, despite (or perhaps because of) the intensity of the game. And in the end, it didn't matter who won – we all knew that we had been winners just by playing together and enjoying each other's company.

In a post-game interview with my friends, I revealed that Matt had called me "blind man" due to his clever block placement strategy. It was a lighthearted jab that I took in stride, knowing that it came from a place of affection. And as we all agreed to meet up again soon for another game (or perhaps even a rematch), the words "dope" and "nope" became a running joke between us – each referring to the other person's moves during the game.

As I packed up the Connect Four board and headed home, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the experience. It had been a blast playing with friends, despite (or perhaps because of) the unexpected twists and turns that our game had taken. And who knows? Maybe next time we'll even master that tricky strategy that Matt used to outmaneuver me...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni just want to smell the candles i don't want to make a candle so death is all six cents mixed together how does it smell which one are you spinning okay it is death that was fun that was fun you wanna try one more time no okay omg guys what is it what day is it thursday thursday that's right look at your calendars begins your double dose of dope yeah part three today we're going to be looking at a giant mystery box full of a bunch of really sick custom doper note products that's sick yeah you know what else is sick what am i on on that note let's look at these sick and a cool way products it's a box of happiness there it is everybody that's what it is not suck oh custom i was reading in the camera oh this is the sick box look at the top down perfect no they don't want to you don't want to show them what's inside the mystery box we're going to have right right here off camera we're going to pick random products that are custom products guys it's a white box give me a pen and i'll customize it no no wait i have a pen oh my god guys these are gnome dominoes these are so sick these are so cool and now all of a sudden they really want to know how to play dominoes i don't want to play you don't know how to play dominoes well not not the dumb like no ding dong there's a game that's not dumb it's like i just don't have patience for it yeah pretty much the whole way domino's work so you kind of just got to bump these ones against these ones and you got to make them so do i have a set of dominoes and you have a set of dominoes depends on which game you play okay can you teach me yeah can you teach me so here's the thing i don't know if we can actually pat teach me what do you want me to teach you play dominoes look up dominoes don't you want to be my best friend pat look at how to play dominoes but here are the rules for basic dominoes so we picked seven inches take seven each put them in front of you so the other person can't see and then whoever has the highest double play it you could also do it i do it horizontally just because they stay upright easily it's not a bad idea pat but we're going with the uh the giant stone i have a mentality i have a double play your highest double tanner cool all right to play you must place a matching domino next to any of the four exposed ends okay so i do this i can only do this right nope you can do that you can do that or you can do this or you can do that but then you'd have to match it on this side no it's going to do this it's in the middle matt so the five would touch the middle of the domino because they're both fives yes oh they're both fives i didn't see that oh and you're just trying to run out of dominoes first okay then when i get it all right here we go and i believe if you run out of dominoes and someone's the people who still have them left it counts the amount of dots and that's how many points they have cool cool i hope don't look don't look i don't know if it really matters yeah i have no idea either even if i look i have no idea what to do what is defensive yeah good luck so if you do this i can't do this or that no basically like this is the only one you can play off of all four angles so why aren't you just doing this i wanted to make it out that was pretty neat so you can only play off multiple directions four five or one you can play off of correct i don't know you just confused me just look at it like it's like this yeah why don't you just it doesn't matter do that yeah four five one same thing does not do that then he had a response anyway oh you confused me and then double goes like that that's hot can i play off of this two now yeah cool only if you have one yep i don't got one left what are you gonna do we gotta pull guess you just kind of fat out cause i got a three right there yep i hate this game that was fun that was fun you want to try one more time no okay i think these are dope though these are really cool you see it's like this nice like glistening glowing beautiful color and i do appreciate it it looks like a block of it looks like my glasses all right they play this a lot in prison they used to play these in prison with bones whose bones the enemies yes next product oh it's got lacing that's a dirty box it's dressed in lace you're a dirty fox and wants you to open it up sounds like your trump impression it wants you to open it up it's the biggest bucks this is definitely a mystery box just take a box of the same thing another box if there's another box in your pack i honestly don't know what this is i'm walking out high five cards high five cards wait a second what is on the other side of these i'm so nervous oh people wait what i really hope i'm the king i bet you're the ace these are high five cards oh you moved my chair i thought there was an earthquake thanks let's go through each car nine of spades paul is a nine he's definitely a two we should play we should play war with hi-fi studios i like that of hearts okay why is wood the three though but he's hearts cj's a four connor oh joker jack that should have been you jack i know but i want it to be a joke art sam is the sixth back to paul you've got to be oh luna's the ace that makes sense she does run the business yeah she does yeah kevin's the queen i thought he would have been amanda once again michael's the eighth you're the king yeah i'm the king oh the joker just doping up i like that past five pats five five out of 100 yeah yes oh cat's the two it nice all right you want to play war the these cards i'll be honest they just feel like photo paper they don't feel like actually like card stock so if you shuffle them they just bend well it's it's not even that they they're just they can slide like normal cards do they're sticky here's what i'm saying we play five rounds of war okay okay boom we each get five don't look you don't get to look now we have to get me five all right war is random oh what's the difference if i don't look then if you don't look that means you don't get to choose what to play at what point well i would have just turned it over and i still wouldn't have been able to choose no looking at what you're about to flip your soldiers are unbeknownst to you oh unbeknownst three two one go i don't understand the play war you win michael the doll clearly beats samantha oh this is not how you play war yeah it is you flip over random cards and the highest card wins and this person gets them where's the slap where's the slime did you just everything you do as a kid have to do with abuse when do i hit someone oh here we go you win that hand three two one i got the nine you got the two take that three two one i got pat oh you beat pat every day of the week i literally just budget him that's murdered three two one uh michael talmantas beats connor okay close match three two one oh double queens no i took it i slapped this all right what do you guys think no i'll say no and these are dope these are cool they're not perfect cards but i don't know where the tin went yeah i know where that 10 went boy diy candle kit do it yourself candle kit i'm happy so here's the deal boy oh boy oh boy multiple candles that have already been made oh no one's called death tanner gets that one i'll get rose i just want to smell the candles i don't want to make a candle which one are you saying okay it is death so death is all sixth sense mixed together oh okay that's not so bad how does it smell so this is ocean this is this is ocean oh gosh that's not bad it actually reminds me of i don't like that barely smells like a smell you barely smell thank you like a not smell what yes you big snake this is the wax that you melt down this is how you test to know if things are happening are things happening it just says yes yes things are happening all right what do you guys think would you want to make your own camera no i i don't care about making my own candle half the scents are well poo poo half descents make no sense but i will say the ocean scent i do like i like the bag it came with more than the product i've never seen a box have a handle that's surprising honestly i'll give the box a dough i've never seen this before i've never seen this kind of efficient i like it it's kind of efficient one-handed box oh wait a second oh i can just hold the box with one hand what's the difference one finger can you hold the box with a finger yeah oh gosh yo don't for no clock it's a little weak loose battery well no that's just made wrong don't knock the clock but the actual wooden part of the clock is dope i like how it splits see blue right that is really cool pink left and guess what these are generally the note powers of the day and these are generally the dope hours of the day uh 1 a.m 2 a.m 3 a.m 4 a.m 5 a.m 1 p.m 2 p.m 3 p.m 4 p.m 6 a.m 7 00 a.m 8 a.m 9 00 a.m 9 a.m it's actually fully customizable watch now it's 12. now it's none oh shoot i'm late it takes it serious this is a dope but it needs a new thing next product is this the secret hidden product for the end of the video yo oh these are so much cooler those are way cooler why don't we play dominoes with these these are like galaxy doper no colors hey give me a close in on this dog these are like resin people make things like this with resin these are really cool very neat although the front is a little splotchy which makes it hard to tell if it's three dots or ten yeah there's like little white decorative pieces so what do you like better this set or the other um if this wasn't so spotty i'd like this one because the back is just so freaking cool but i think they should have like done it the opposite way almost but they these are really cool looking i like them i like these ones i like these ones just in general look at this die this is hard to read yeah you can't tell it's just a little word yeah it's true but also it doesn't feel good i want it to slide personally i want it to feel slightly on the back it's too rough i can't even rub my finger barely i care about why do you care about rubbing your fingers because they got to be slippy slightly this is a makeup for a previous product remember we looked at this product when it was on the old dope and upset with like me you and michael and we spelt it weird and we like we should have done dope for nope instead we did like tanner michael and then like spelled your name really long and weird yeah that wasn't disappointing but nothing great here's matthias's name so why not dope or not that wouldn't work show them your yeah so this is a oh guys you did it again oh i see or yes yeah it's supposed to be straight down actually so they messed up on the order but it's supposed to be we'll try one more time we'll buy another one so close to those of you that don't know what i'm laughing at it says dope oh oh it's kind of what it comes out of it that's good it's better than the last one we have to put the bottom in so we can play yeah thumbs up and thumbs down for the nope and dope yeah i like the thumbs up thumbs down that's cool that's nino babino that's me ready to play tan manchester yeah we got one game of connect four i have no clue to open this bag can you do so what it's tight everyone laughs till they get it in their hands i can mean a lot of things what are you reaching for oh your knife matt vs bag who wins all right i got him some being pink because i'm pretty in pink pink's the nope color you're the nope color i get to go first cool okay okay power move wow if i lose i'm blaming on whatever angle i'm in right now confused with your play here tanner what were you trying to do you see you see says blind man that's a big block it's gonna be a bigger block now we both have nothing congrats really you gonna do something like that to me yeah i am i really hope that doesn't backfire what are you gonna do blind man do you call me blind man yeah you are was she blind man weird you're a dummy so he puts it there back you wouldn't have lost there what do you mean there's three in a row i would lose if i put it if i didn't i couldn't have gotten here for two more if i i mean matt if i didn't put it you wouldn't be mad you get it i don't know let me explain it to you i lose either way there do you see why i lose either way do you want me to explain matt pat he had three in a row who's that three right here if i don't you block it here he just puts his fourth one right there if i do put it there then he wins either way i'm confused you could just move on with a bit i i know you tanner you're confused i'm not you put yours right here so you have three in a row and this is already in oh i didn't see that you guys both don't see how i lose i still don't see oh my gosh i'm getting flamed by youtube i don't even know how you're gonna i won i'll explain it on camera pat so you can see it so matt plays this one he had these two wait can you take out the ones you weren't playing no no no no no no no the viewers oh well we've really worked on that so well you did it wrong again try again you guys made me feel bad but in reality i was gone either way that was doper nope wednesday episode guys if you want to watch the previous videos boom they're right there if you want to watch the next video or a video you'd recommend boom click that one right there the reason i say one or the other is because if you're watching it on time you won't be able to watch tomorrow's video if you're watching it later you have to watch the video youtube recommends subscribe to the bell icon let us know if you want to see more custom stuff we have some crazy stuff come for dope we can stay tuned to see us play youtuber guess who at the end of this week do it see what youtubers are there do it we'll see you next timei just want to smell the candles i don't want to make a candle so death is all six cents mixed together how does it smell which one are you spinning okay it is death that was fun that was fun you wanna try one more time no okay omg guys what is it what day is it thursday thursday that's right look at your calendars begins your double dose of dope yeah part three today we're going to be looking at a giant mystery box full of a bunch of really sick custom doper note products that's sick yeah you know what else is sick what am i on on that note let's look at these sick and a cool way products it's a box of happiness there it is everybody that's what it is not suck oh custom i was reading in the camera oh this is the sick box look at the top down perfect no they don't want to you don't want to show them what's inside the mystery box we're going to have right right here off camera we're going to pick random products that are custom products guys it's a white box give me a pen and i'll customize it no no wait i have a pen oh my god guys these are gnome dominoes these are so sick these are so cool and now all of a sudden they really want to know how to play dominoes i don't want to play you don't know how to play dominoes well not not the dumb like no ding dong there's a game that's not dumb it's like i just don't have patience for it yeah pretty much the whole way domino's work so you kind of just got to bump these ones against these ones and you got to make them so do i have a set of dominoes and you have a set of dominoes depends on which game you play okay can you teach me yeah can you teach me so here's the thing i don't know if we can actually pat teach me what do you want me to teach you play dominoes look up dominoes don't you want to be my best friend pat look at how to play dominoes but here are the rules for basic dominoes so we picked seven inches take seven each put them in front of you so the other person can't see and then whoever has the highest double play it you could also do it i do it horizontally just because they stay upright easily it's not a bad idea pat but we're going with the uh the giant stone i have a mentality i have a double play your highest double tanner cool all right to play you must place a matching domino next to any of the four exposed ends okay so i do this i can only do this right nope you can do that you can do that or you can do this or you can do that but then you'd have to match it on this side no it's going to do this it's in the middle matt so the five would touch the middle of the domino because they're both fives yes oh they're both fives i didn't see that oh and you're just trying to run out of dominoes first okay then when i get it all right here we go and i believe if you run out of dominoes and someone's the people who still have them left it counts the amount of dots and that's how many points they have cool cool i hope don't look don't look i don't know if it really matters yeah i have no idea either even if i look i have no idea what to do what is defensive yeah good luck so if you do this i can't do this or that no basically like this is the only one you can play off of all four angles so why aren't you just doing this i wanted to make it out that was pretty neat so you can only play off multiple directions four five or one you can play off of correct i don't know you just confused me just look at it like it's like this yeah why don't you just it doesn't matter do that yeah four five one same thing does not do that then he had a response anyway oh you confused me and then double goes like that that's hot can i play off of this two now yeah cool only if you have one yep i don't got one left what are you gonna do we gotta pull guess you just kind of fat out cause i got a three right there yep i hate this game that was fun that was fun you want to try one more time no okay i think these are dope though these are really cool you see it's like this nice like glistening glowing beautiful color and i do appreciate it it looks like a block of it looks like my glasses all right they play this a lot in prison they used to play these in prison with bones whose bones the enemies yes next product oh it's got lacing that's a dirty box it's dressed in lace you're a dirty fox and wants you to open it up sounds like your trump impression it wants you to open it up it's the biggest bucks this is definitely a mystery box just take a box of the same thing another box if there's another box in your pack i honestly don't know what this is i'm walking out high five cards high five cards wait a second what is on the other side of these i'm so nervous oh people wait what i really hope i'm the king i bet you're the ace these are high five cards oh you moved my chair i thought there was an earthquake thanks let's go through each car nine of spades paul is a nine he's definitely a two we should play we should play war with hi-fi studios i like that of hearts okay why is wood the three though but he's hearts cj's a four connor oh joker jack that should have been you jack i know but i want it to be a joke art sam is the sixth back to paul you've got to be oh luna's the ace that makes sense she does run the business yeah she does yeah kevin's the queen i thought he would have been amanda once again michael's the eighth you're the king yeah i'm the king oh the joker just doping up i like that past five pats five five out of 100 yeah yes oh cat's the two it nice all right you want to play war the these cards i'll be honest they just feel like photo paper they don't feel like actually like card stock so if you shuffle them they just bend well it's it's not even that they they're just they can slide like normal cards do they're sticky here's what i'm saying we play five rounds of war okay okay boom we each get five don't look you don't get to look now we have to get me five all right war is random oh what's the difference if i don't look then if you don't look that means you don't get to choose what to play at what point well i would have just turned it over and i still wouldn't have been able to choose no looking at what you're about to flip your soldiers are unbeknownst to you oh unbeknownst three two one go i don't understand the play war you win michael the doll clearly beats samantha oh this is not how you play war yeah it is you flip over random cards and the highest card wins and this person gets them where's the slap where's the slime did you just everything you do as a kid have to do with abuse when do i hit someone oh here we go you win that hand three two one i got the nine you got the two take that three two one i got pat oh you beat pat every day of the week i literally just budget him that's murdered three two one uh michael talmantas beats connor okay close match three two one oh double queens no i took it i slapped this all right what do you guys think no i'll say no and these are dope these are cool they're not perfect cards but i don't know where the tin went yeah i know where that 10 went boy diy candle kit do it yourself candle kit i'm happy so here's the deal boy oh boy oh boy multiple candles that have already been made oh no one's called death tanner gets that one i'll get rose i just want to smell the candles i don't want to make a candle which one are you saying okay it is death so death is all sixth sense mixed together oh okay that's not so bad how does it smell so this is ocean this is this is ocean oh gosh that's not bad it actually reminds me of i don't like that barely smells like a smell you barely smell thank you like a not smell what yes you big snake this is the wax that you melt down this is how you test to know if things are happening are things happening it just says yes yes things are happening all right what do you guys think would you want to make your own camera no i i don't care about making my own candle half the scents are well poo poo half descents make no sense but i will say the ocean scent i do like i like the bag it came with more than the product i've never seen a box have a handle that's surprising honestly i'll give the box a dough i've never seen this before i've never seen this kind of efficient i like it it's kind of efficient one-handed box oh wait a second oh i can just hold the box with one hand what's the difference one finger can you hold the box with a finger yeah oh gosh yo don't for no clock it's a little weak loose battery well no that's just made wrong don't knock the clock but the actual wooden part of the clock is dope i like how it splits see blue right that is really cool pink left and guess what these are generally the note powers of the day and these are generally the dope hours of the day uh 1 a.m 2 a.m 3 a.m 4 a.m 5 a.m 1 p.m 2 p.m 3 p.m 4 p.m 6 a.m 7 00 a.m 8 a.m 9 00 a.m 9 a.m it's actually fully customizable watch now it's 12. now it's none oh shoot i'm late it takes it serious this is a dope but it needs a new thing next product is this the secret hidden product for the end of the video yo oh these are so much cooler those are way cooler why don't we play dominoes with these these are like galaxy doper no colors hey give me a close in on this dog these are like resin people make things like this with resin these are really cool very neat although the front is a little splotchy which makes it hard to tell if it's three dots or ten yeah there's like little white decorative pieces so what do you like better this set or the other um if this wasn't so spotty i'd like this one because the back is just so freaking cool but i think they should have like done it the opposite way almost but they these are really cool looking i like them i like these ones i like these ones just in general look at this die this is hard to read yeah you can't tell it's just a little word yeah it's true but also it doesn't feel good i want it to slide personally i want it to feel slightly on the back it's too rough i can't even rub my finger barely i care about why do you care about rubbing your fingers because they got to be slippy slightly this is a makeup for a previous product remember we looked at this product when it was on the old dope and upset with like me you and michael and we spelt it weird and we like we should have done dope for nope instead we did like tanner michael and then like spelled your name really long and weird yeah that wasn't disappointing but nothing great here's matthias's name so why not dope or not that wouldn't work show them your yeah so this is a oh guys you did it again oh i see or yes yeah it's supposed to be straight down actually so they messed up on the order but it's supposed to be we'll try one more time we'll buy another one so close to those of you that don't know what i'm laughing at it says dope oh oh it's kind of what it comes out of it that's good it's better than the last one we have to put the bottom in so we can play yeah thumbs up and thumbs down for the nope and dope yeah i like the thumbs up thumbs down that's cool that's nino babino that's me ready to play tan manchester yeah we got one game of connect four i have no clue to open this bag can you do so what it's tight everyone laughs till they get it in their hands i can mean a lot of things what are you reaching for oh your knife matt vs bag who wins all right i got him some being pink because i'm pretty in pink pink's the nope color you're the nope color i get to go first cool okay okay power move wow if i lose i'm blaming on whatever angle i'm in right now confused with your play here tanner what were you trying to do you see you see says blind man that's a big block it's gonna be a bigger block now we both have nothing congrats really you gonna do something like that to me yeah i am i really hope that doesn't backfire what are you gonna do blind man do you call me blind man yeah you are was she blind man weird you're a dummy so he puts it there back you wouldn't have lost there what do you mean there's three in a row i would lose if i put it if i didn't i couldn't have gotten here for two more if i i mean matt if i didn't put it you wouldn't be mad you get it i don't know let me explain it to you i lose either way there do you see why i lose either way do you want me to explain matt pat he had three in a row who's that three right here if i don't you block it here he just puts his fourth one right there if i do put it there then he wins either way i'm confused you could just move on with a bit i i know you tanner you're confused i'm not you put yours right here so you have three in a row and this is already in oh i didn't see that you guys both don't see how i lose i still don't see oh my gosh i'm getting flamed by youtube i don't even know how you're gonna i won i'll explain it on camera pat so you can see it so matt plays this one he had these two wait can you take out the ones you weren't playing no no no no no no no the viewers oh well we've really worked on that so well you did it wrong again try again you guys made me feel bad but in reality i was gone either way that was doper nope wednesday episode guys if you want to watch the previous videos boom they're right there if you want to watch the next video or a video you'd recommend boom click that one right there the reason i say one or the other is because if you're watching it on time you won't be able to watch tomorrow's video if you're watching it later you have to watch the video youtube recommends subscribe to the bell icon let us know if you want to see more custom stuff we have some crazy stuff come for dope we can stay tuned to see us play youtuber guess who at the end of this week do it see what youtubers are there do it we'll see you next time\n"