How to use Gomoku
Place black and white stones on a 15×15 board with a second local player, connect five, and undo or reset the current round. Black and White alternate placing stones on empty intersections. The first uninterrupted line of five or more horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins. The active result always remains visible in the workspace, and any provided Reset or New game control restores a documented starting state instead of quietly preserving an old outcome.
Mouse, touch, and keyboard-friendly controls are provided wherever the underlying action can be expressed without a complex gesture. Status changes are written as text as well as color or motion, so the next step is not hidden inside the visual board.
Rules and method
After each placement, four axes are scanned outward from the new stone. Counting stops at an edge, empty cell, or opposing stone. The game runs in the current browser tab, so ordinary play does not require a remote opponent, game account, or cloud session.
The page names its actual rule set instead of implying that every regional, tournament, classroom, or commercial version behaves identically. Visible counters, board state, selected controls, and completion messages make the result inspectable rather than treating animation as proof that an action succeeded.
Practical play and accessibility
Build intersecting threats that can extend in two directions and block an opponent’s open four immediately. Central stones generally create more possible lines. Restarting is useful when learning, and a lower difficulty or slower pace is a legitimate control choice rather than a lesser result.
Interactive targets use native buttons or labelled controls where possible. Drag, swipe, sound, timing, and motion never stand alone when a simpler control can perform the same job. The layout reflows for a narrow screen, visible focus remains available, and the site-wide reduced-motion preference limits decorative animation.
Privacy and limits
This version uses freestyle five-or-more rules without Renju restrictions, forbidden Black moves, opening protocols, clocks, online opponents, or computer analysis. These boundaries keep a casual entertainment page from making a medical, legal, financial, diagnostic, spiritual, or performance claim it cannot support.
Names, choices, moves, scores, drawings, and settings are processed locally and are not submitted to NexaCurrent by the tool. Reloading or closing the page normally clears the current session. No login, cloud save, leaderboard, advertising profile, or remote opponent is involved in ordinary play. If a result affects another person, a prize, safety, money, consent, or access, use an appropriate transparent process rather than treating a browser game as authority.