gomoku
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 五目 (gomoku).
Noun
gomoku (uncountable)
- An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces of the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of his pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.
