Place a marble, give one quadrant a quarter-turn, and chase five in a row across a board that keeps rotating beneath you.
Quint Twist is a strategy game on a 6×6 board divided into four 3×3 quadrants. Each turn has two steps: first place one of your marbles on any empty cell, then rotate any quadrant a quarter-turn clockwise or counter-clockwise. The twist scrambles part of the board, so threats appear and vanish as the quadrants spin.
You win by making a line of five of your own marbles, horizontally, vertically or diagonally, and lines may run straight across the quadrant seams. The win is checked after the rotation, so the right twist can complete your line or break your opponent's.
This is Pentago, the abstract game invented by Tomas Flodén: a 6×6 board of four 3×3 quadrants, a marble placed and then a quadrant turned a quarter-turn, and five in a row to win. The rules here are those rules.
What the rotation does to a line game is the whole point of the design. A threat is never fixed in place, because the board it sits on can be turned out from under it.
That is why the usual five-in-a-row reading fails. In a static line game you count threats; here a quadrant turn can create a line nobody built and destroy one somebody spent four moves on, so the position you must evaluate is every rotation of the position in front of you.
Quint Twist reinvents the five-in-a-row connection genre by adding a board-twisting mechanic and a once-per-game quadrant lock, so position is never fixed. This is an original, free browser game playable instantly with no download or sign-up.