Tempus: Six in a Row

You start the game with 100 seconds. On your turn, your time runs down. If your time runs out, you lose.



You take turns placing a stone on to the board. When you place a stone, if it makes a straight line of 6 or more of your stones, you win. Otherwise, the square of the number of stones your stone touches is taken from your time.



For example, if your stone didn’t create a winning line and touched 4 stones, you’d lose 16 seconds.



Making a winning line is very hard against a careful player with plenty of time - the trick is to make your opponent spend a lot of seconds blocking you.