Place stones, build five in a row, and outread a friend on a 15×15 board — online, real time, free and no signup.
Play a friend online — create a room, share the link. Free, no signup.
Play Gomoku online — also called Five in a Row — against a friend in real time. Create a room on Play Lounge, share the link, and you both place stones on the same 15×15 board with every move synced live. No account, no download, free, and playable on any device.
Want practice first? Play Gomoku vs the computer at three levels. The AI recognizes open threes and fours and blocks your forcing sequences, so the hard setting is a genuine test of your shape reading before you challenge a friend.
Create a room, share one link. Your friend joins instantly — no accounts, no signup.
Every move syncs instantly over a live connection, even on a slow network.
No one online? Practice against a built-in AI with three difficulty levels.
Free with no download. Plays in any browser and installs as an app.
Players alternate placing black and white stones on the intersections of a 15×15 grid. The first to form an unbroken line of exactly five stones — horizontal, vertical, or diagonal — wins. There is no capturing and no moving once a stone is placed, so every move is permanent. Create "open" threes and fours that threaten in two directions at once; a double-four or a four-plus-open-three is usually unstoppable.
Yes. Play Lounge lets you open a private room and share a link; your friend joins instantly and you play the same 15×15 board in real time, free and with no signup.
Yes — Gomoku is the traditional name for the Five in a Row game: the first player to line up five stones in a row wins.
Choose Gomoku, create a room, and send the invite link to the second player. They open it, join automatically, and you alternate placing stones.
Yes — free with no account and no download, and it installs as an app on any device if you want it on your home screen.
Play these online with a friend too — same room links, same zero setup.
