KEEP THIS HANDY
Controls at a glance.
- ← / →
- Rotate the central hexagon.
- Touch
- The upstream game includes touch input; this guide’s mobile gameplay check is still pending.
- Play symbol
- Start inside the player, then give it keyboard focus.
The outer hexagon is the limit
Blocks arrive from outside and settle around the central shape. A face that stacks past the outer boundary ends the game. A nearly full face deserves attention even if a promising match is forming somewhere else.
Clearing changes the whole stack
A connected group of three or more blocks of one color disappears. Blocks above that group slide down, so one clear can expose or form another useful connection. Watch the result before committing to a long series of rotations.
Combos depend on timing
The official press kit describes a shrinking outline that shows the combo window. Treat combos as a second objective while learning. Keeping the stacks within the boundary matters first.
WATCH THE GAMEPLAY
See the timing for yourself.
Gameplay video linked in the creators’ press kit.
What happens to your progress?
Local state in this browser; separate from other Hextris hosts.
Check the save and backup guide ↗A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS
Before the next click.
Is this the original game logic?
The local player uses upstream revision 3f4847dc8fd7dab3d1c87e6324b9159d92fbd396. Creator credits and game logic are retained, with upstream advertising and analytics removed.
How many blocks make a match?
Three or more touching blocks of the same color, according to the creators’ press kit.
Why do the arrow keys scroll instead?
Click inside the game frame first. The embedded game needs focus to receive the key.
A useful next read.
Hextris: read all six sides. ↗Follow the source.
Logan Engstrom, Garrett Finucane, Noah Moroze and Michael Yang. Licence notice. GPL-3.0-or-later; press-kit media.
Latest collected source change: Merge pull request #171 from NunoJDCM/esof_bugfix (opens a new tab) . Repository activity does not identify the hosted game version.
All media and source credits ↗
