Garden Hex is a Hex board game online where every stone helps build a route between two opposite edges. White connects N to S; black connects W to E. Choose a complete 11×11 game against the computer or a friend sharing your device, or learn with twenty separate 4×4 connection challenges.
Tap or click inside a hex to place a stone. On a focused board, arrow keys move the outlined cell and Enter or Space places there. Previous empty, Next empty and Place focus provide button controls. Swap colors appears as an available action only for Player 2's first decision. Hint outlines a suggestion; Play hint performs it. Undo, Pause, sound, Restart, Help and Full screen are beside the board.
Plan connections in more than one direction. Two nearby groups may be able to meet through different empty cells, making them harder to block. Check the edge labels after a swap: your player number stays the same, while your stone color and destination pair change.
Standard games start with all 121 hexes empty. There is no gravity, capture, line-length requirement or tile clearing. Place freely on any empty cell and connect your assigned edges through the six-neighbor grid. The first connection ends the game immediately. A complete Hex game cannot be a draw.
Two players take turns on the same screen; there are no remote rooms or online matchmaking. Vs computer makes you Player 1 and the computer Player 2. The computer compares legal choices with a connection-distance strategy within a fixed search budget. It can make mistakes and is not claimed to play Hex optimally.
Player 2 has a one-time pie-rule choice immediately after the first stone: place normally, or exchange colors with Player 1. Swapping consumes that turn. The opening stone remains in its original hex, now belonging to the other player. Player 1 then places the opposite color. No later turn can swap, and Undo can restore the position and both players' color assignments.
Challenges use a clearly labeled 4×4 board rather than pretending to be shortened standard games. Each starting position comes from legal alternating play and has a strategy that wins against every legal opponent response. The fixed proof search takes strictly more work across the twenty positions, from 2 visited nodes to 220; the empty-space count also grows from four to ten. This measures a consistent planning task, not a promise that every later puzzle feels harder. Your own mistakes can still lead to a losing position. Full 11×11 games never unlock these challenges.
Play free, with no download, account or ads. The board uses separate desktop and portrait layouts, and all hexes remain inside the game window. Stone letters and edge labels identify both goals without relying on color alone. Help opens separately and cancels any pending touch. There is no clock or life limit.
Yes. Open Garden Hex and choose Challenges, Vs computer or Two players. The game is free in your browser and does not need an account or installation.
No. This is the two-player connection board game Hex. You place one stone per turn and connect your opposite edges; there is no sorting, stacking or clearing tiles.
This version supports two players taking turns on the same device. It does not provide remote multiplayer, invitations or matchmaking.
The second player used the opening pie rule. The players exchange colors and target edges, while the existing stone stays in place. Player 1 makes the next move with the other color. The labels above the board always show the current assignments.
Yes. In Vs computer and Challenges, Undo restores your previous action and the computer response that followed, including an opening swap. In Two players it restores the most recent single action.
Unlocked challenges, best scores and sound settings are stored locally when browser storage is available. Reload opens a fresh first challenge; it does not restore an unfinished full game. Restart and changing modes ask for confirmation.
The full-game computer and its hints use a limited connection-distance search, so they can be beaten. Small-board challenges use exact win/loss search. If an exact search reaches its budget, the game reports that limit instead of awarding an unverified result.
Garden Hex is a Hex board game online where every stone helps build a route between two opposite edges. White connects N to S; black connects W to E. Choose a complete 11×11 game against the computer or a friend sharing your device, or learn with twenty separate 4×4 connection challenges.
Play this puzzle / casual game in the embedded browser player. No app installation or MangoFun account is required. Follow the instructions shown inside the game; controls and device support depend on the title.
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