HexNerds

How to play HexNerds

Connect your two sides before your opponent connects theirs — by spelling words.

  1. One player is blue and joins the top edge to the bottom. The other is red and joins the left edge to the right.
  2. We flip a coin to see who goes first.
  3. On your turn, colour a string of touching hexes — in any direction — that spells a real word of any length.
  4. Spelling the word claims those tiles for your colour. You can build on your own tiles, but never take your opponent's.
  5. Find long words, block their routes, and time your key claims. First to link their two sides wins.

A worked example

Watch blue win in five moves: WORD, then DOG, then CAT.

WORDATHDAIEOSFRGNEATCATES
Blue claims WORD.
WORDATHDAIEOSFRGNEATCATES
Red claims THE.
WORDATHDAIEOSFRGNEATCATES
Blue claims DOG.
WORDATHDAIEOSFRGNEATCATES
Red claims IF.
WORDATHDAIEOSFRGNEATCATES
Blue claims CAT — and has joined top to bottom. Blue wins.
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