Hexpiece

Hexpiece is a daily placement puzzle that uses chess pieces, whose numbered puzzles began on 23 January 2026. Despite the name, the board is a normal eight by eight grid; each day a handful of squares are walled off, and the layout is built from the date so every player sees the same one.

You get a pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen and king, and must place exactly one of each. A square counts if a piece stands on it or attacks it. Walls cannot hold pieces and stop the bishop, rook and queen from sliding past, and pieces block each other too, while the knight jumps as usual and the pawn attacks diagonally forward as White. You can drag pieces around, undo and reset, then submit when you are happy, and a chart shows how many players reached each score.

Classic mode is about squeezing out the best score you can, while Perfect mode uses a board where a full cover exists and keeps a separate win streak. It suits chess players who like thinking about piece reach, and puzzle fans who enjoy optimisation problems with no time pressure.

The page is a single screen with no account and no ads, and it works the same on a phone, where the pieces sit in a tray of large buttons under the board. Today's results open in a chart of how many players reached each score, with your own bar highlighted, and a share button copies your result.