Poof Pente was invented by Pente Player Tom Cooley. In normal Pente, when a player places a stone on an empty intersection and creates a pair flanked on either side by the opponent's stones, no capture occurs. In Poof Pente this is not the case. Any time a pair is flanked between two of their opponent's stones capture occurs. So if a line of stones are arranged XO_X and O places their stone so that it creates a line of XOOX the two O stones are removed from play and counted towards capture, leaving X_ _ X. All other rules are the same as in Pente.