Make a four-in-a-row game

Start from a blank workpiece

Design your own four-in-a-row game

The animation below shows drawing a three-dimensional four-in-a-row game from scratch in Easel. A wooden base seats sixteen separate dowels, and two colors of wooden counters slide onto them. Players take turns adding a counter and try to make a line of four horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Assume 5 mm dowels 60 mm long, 25 mm counters cut from 10 mm stock, and a 22 mm finger-access envelope between neighboring counters; these are untested design references. Draw a 200 × 200 mm base in 10 mm wood. Place sixteen 5.2 mm blind seats, 8 mm deep, on a four-by-four grid with 50 mm centers. Draw a 25 mm counter with a centered 5.5 mm through-hole; cut 64 counters and finish 32 in each color. The 52 mm of dowel above the base holds four 10 mm counters with 12 mm remaining above the stack. Adjacent counter rims are 25 mm apart, giving the 22 mm finger reference 3 mm of additional room. The seats retain a 2 mm floor and give the dowels 0.2 mm total clearance; use wood glue to secure them after a scrap fit test. Remove profile tabs, smooth the counter holes and confirm comfortable placement and removal before finishing the set.