Best Free Pentago Game
Place a marble, then twist a quadrant - get five in a row before the computer does.
Level 1
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How to play
- Place a marble. Click any empty hole to drop one of your blue marbles. You move first.
- Twist a quadrant. Pick a ↺ or ↻ button to rotate one of the four 3×3 quadrants a quarter-turn - this completes your turn.
- Make five in a row. Line up five of your marbles in any direction after the twist to win.
About Pentago
Pentago is the modern five-in-a-row twist on a 6×6 board built from four rotating 3×3 quadrants. Each turn has two parts: first you drop one of your blue marbles into an empty hole, then you spin any one of the four quadrants a quarter-turn - clockwise or counter-clockwise. The board is constantly changing under both players, so a line you build can be made or broken by the very next twist. The win is checked after the rotation: first to line up five of their own marbles in a row takes the game. Pick a difficulty to set how hard the computer plays. No signup, no download, nothing uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
On every turn you do two things: place one marble in any empty hole, then rotate one of the four 3×3 quadrants a quarter-turn in either direction. You play blue and move first. The first player to get five of their marbles in an unbroken row - horizontal, vertical or diagonal - after a rotation wins.
Yes. A turn is not complete until you both place a marble and twist a quadrant, so the board changes on every single move. After you place, the rotation buttons light up and you must pick one.
After the twist. A row of five only counts once the rotation is done, which is what makes Pentago tricky: a winning line can appear or disappear depending on which quadrant you spin.
If a single rotation produces five for both colours at the same time, the game is scored as a draw rather than a win for either side.
Easy places and twists almost at random, Normal scores every place-and-rotate combination with a line-potential heuristic, and Hard also looks ahead to avoid handing you a five on your next turn.
Completely free, with no signup, no download and no paywall - it runs entirely in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Pentago works on phones and tablets as well as desktop - there is no app to install.
No. Pentago works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file - Pentago starts working the moment you give it your input.
Your input is processed in memory and never stored, so nothing is left behind once you have your result.