Tinder has made it easier than ever to meet prospective mates, but it still requires that delicate matter of getting the other person to give you his/her phone number. But one genius Tinder user has conjured up a way to forgo that awkward stage by instead getting the girl on the other end of the conversation caught up in a game of cyber Connect Four.

Before they even know what hit 'em, they're locked into a game of strategy and wit. And by the time his board game game-running has run its course, they're giving him their numbers. "Hey so since I beat you in connect 4 you owe me your phone number," is the typical response he sends after a round of competition, and IT WORKED EVERY TIME — at least based on the screenshots on this imgur post.

And by the way, when he got bored of his Connect Four winning streak, he started up a game of Tic-Tac-Toe...

...with the same results!

So now everyone has learned a clever new way to score on Tinder, as well as the true use for those colored circle emojis.