Hextris Game

Hextris turns the falling-blocks formula on its head. Instead of a rectangular well, you're managing a hexagon, with colored blocks sliding in from all six sides at once. Rotate the hexagon so each new block lands on a face that already holds the same color, and once three or more stack together on one side, they vanish.

It started as a hackathon project by four Boston-area high schoolers — Logan Engstrom, Garrett Finucane, Noah Moroze and Michael Yang — and the polish shows: no menus to dig through, no lives to manage, just an increasingly frantic pace as blocks arrive faster the longer you survive. A round can be over in under a minute, or stretch on much longer once you get a feel for reading all six sides at once.

Controls

• Left / Right arrow keys — rotate the hexagon on desktop
• Tap the left or right side of the screen — rotate on touch devices

Tips

• Don't fixate on the side facing you — blocks land on all six faces, and the one you're ignoring is usually the one that ends the run.
• Rotate early rather than at the last second; queuing a block onto the wrong face because you turned too late is the most common way to lose.
• Chaining matches back-to-back scores far more than clearing them one at a time, so it can pay to hold a near-match open for a beat if another block of that color is about to land.

Hextris is free and open source, built entirely in JavaScript, and it's a good fit for anyone who wants a Tetris-style itch scratched in short, replayable bursts.