Hexic Addict
I’ve unlocked the Hexic Addict achievement on the Xbox – this means I’ve played over 100 games now!
Hexic is part of a group of games I call shape movers, these are games like tetris and slide block puzzels, I think candy crush would probably come under this heading too, what you do is move pieces around to fit or lock together or interact in some way. They tend to rely on you being able to look at the small picture and the large at the same time as well as seeing how the shapes or colours are related to one and other.
In hexic you have hexagons of different colours that you can rotate in groups of three around a point. If during the rotation they create a cluster of three pieces the same colour – they disappear and the blocks all move down to fill the gap, sometimes making more clusters. Some hexagons have stars in and those you make clusters of without worrying about the colour and they blast an area clear. Others have bombs in and these you have to get with their own colour before the explode – bombs going off = end of game.
To win the game you have to make rings of the same coloured tiles or panels, the tile at the middle of these rings turns into a flower. The flowers are really special as you can use them to move all the hexagons around them. You can rotate the flowers. This makes making more flowers alot easier.
If you make a ring of flowers you get a black pearl. This can jump three of the adjacent tiles over the others but you don’t get to choose which.
A cluster of three black pearls wins the game!
Two flowers together can be used to walk themselves into position but it is really easy to accidently make a cluster of flowers – if you do this they disappear – it does give you points etc…
Other tricks are… making a ring of tiles with a star in the middle makes two rows of tiles disappear around where the flower appears. Using stars to get rid of bombs makes all the tiles of that colour disappear (I think I’m still not quiet sure what happens but lots of tiles through out the board disappear – this can destroy the flowers you were arranging etc..).
There is a survival mode as well where uncleared tiles lock in place and a timed version which is nuts as you lose time if you don’t make clusters and stuff.
In short – yep I am a hexic addict!
Posted: Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 @ 9:29 am
Categories: Hexic.
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