Hexaboo

About Hexaboo

Hexaboo plays on a honeycomb of hexagonal cells. Letter tiles sit on the board, and on each turn you choose one move: drag a tile onto a neighbour to swap them, or tap adjacent letters to spell a word of four letters or more and submit it to clear those tiles.

Every turn a new letter spawns somewhere on the board, and a strip at the side shows the letters still to come. You can pass a turn without swapping. In endless mode the game ends when the board fills up; in the daily it ends when the letters run out, so the aim is to score as much as you can with what the day gives you.

The home page shows today's Daily Hexaboo with its date, a smaller Daily Mini-Boo, which asks you to solve the board under a swap limit, and an Endless Hexaboo for any time. There are themes to change the look, and the game is free, supported through Ko-fi.

It suits players who like planning ahead, since a swap now sets up a long word two turns later, and who enjoy word games with a little of the feel of a tile-matching game.

How to play Hexaboo

1. Open Today and choose Daily Hexaboo or the Daily Mini-Boo.
2. Drag a tile onto a neighbouring tile to swap them.
3. Or tap adjacent letters to spell a word of at least four letters and press Submit or the spacebar.
4. A new letter spawns each turn; use Pass Turn to skip without swapping.
5. Keep clearing words until the day's letters run out, then compare your score.

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Tips

• Look at the upcoming letters at the side before you swap.
• Long words clear more space, so build toward them over several turns.
• Keep vowels spread across the board so each cluster can make a word.

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