The goal of the game is to prevent blocks from stacking outside the gray hexagon area. To do this, you have to rotate the hexagon to control the different stacks of falling blocks. By destroying several series of blocks, combinations are approved, the duration of which is indicated by quickly dragging the outline around the outer, gray hexagon. As the game progresses, the falling lines speed up and you become even more determined in your spinning. When you eventually fail to keep up and the hexagon fills up with colored lines, it's game over. And then you start over, obviously.
Hexex were initially created by four high school students from Boston at a hackathon (also known as hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest) on the theme of "Wasted Time". Garrett Finucane, Noah Moroze, Michael Yang and Logan Engstrom teamed up as Team Snowman and took home the gold at HackExeter 2014. Engstrom and Finucane then refined, polished and marketed the game, keeping it free and open source.
If you're playing on the desktop, you rotate the hexagon clockwise by pressing the right arrow, and counter-clockwise by pressing the left arrow. And don't worry, there's already an iOS and Android version for phones and tablets. In the mobile version, just tap the left side of the screen to rotate the hexagon counterclockwise, and the right side of the screen to rotate it clockwise.
