Hexes (Three Emojis)

Hexes follows the familiar Spelling Bee format with a few differences. Words need only be two letters long, must contain the centre letter, and may reuse letters. Each puzzle has dozens of possible words, from everyday vocabulary to rarer finds, and the word list scrolls with arrows that can jump to the next word you have not found. Each word in the list is shown as a row of blanks next to three emoji that hint at it, and a hint button gives a further clue about a missing word.

The English puzzles accept American spellings only, and the German puzzles use standard German spelling. Proper nouns, vulgar words and obsolete terms are filtered out, while some common slang, acronyms and abbreviations are kept on purpose. Players can flag words that should not be there.

Each day's puzzle has its own dated page and is free to play with no account, with three hints. A paid membership adds the archive of every previous daily, unlimited hints and an ad-free site. Three Emojis also makes Globs and Scrambled. Hexes suits Spelling Bee fans, including German speakers looking for a version in their language.