Hexcells

Hexcells

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Hexcells Rules Reference
By Sekraan
Game instructions compiled here for convenience, since the game only explains mechanics when you first encounter them and there is no Help menu or other easy reference.
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General: Left/Right Click & Hex Numbers
Column Numbers: Basics
Column Numbers: {#}
Column Numbers: -#-

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You only need one gap in a group of blue cells to satisfy this condition. Even if the # in the -#- is 3 or more, you can have multiple blue cells touching so long as there is a single gap somewhere in the sequence.
Hex Numbers: {#}

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The -#- format also appears within hex cells. This indicates that the adjacent cells are not all connected (it's possible for some to be touching but there must be a gap).
Column Numbers: Guide Lines & Deactivating
10 Comments
Sekraan  [author] 11 May, 2022 @ 11:55am 
@Cryon Good point. I added an explanation to that section as well.
Cryon 11 May, 2022 @ 6:19am 
@Sekraan ah ok I know now what you ment. But it also applays to the colums numbers aswell right? So I searched it in "Column Numbers: -#-" not in "Hex Numbers: {#} "
Cryon 11 May, 2022 @ 6:16am 
@Sekraan If you think my comment is not usefull you can delete it. For me the examples ingame wheren't specific enought, because my rule "all blue ones have to be seperated" fitted there as well. Because I thought that was the reverse of the rule, and since the example checked just and only that, it isn't a good one, because it misses the other cases. And as the example explains the rule, it kind of failed to do this properly.
Maybe I am in the minority here, and the most understand it correctly. For me it still makes sense that I thought that way.
Sekraan  [author] 9 May, 2022 @ 11:17am 
@Cryon The examples are the ones the game gives you. It introduces -#- in columns and leaves it up to the player to infer how it works when it appears in a cell.

I did add an explanation in the {#} section to clarify that -#- is the reverse of that rule - i.e., all cells cannot be connected - when it is located within the black hex.
Cryon 9 May, 2022 @ 3:54am 
"Column Numbers: -#- aswell as Hex Numbers: -#- just have to be seperated once. Because its not the oppesite of connceled it is "not connceled", menaning that its enought if there is a break (or black hex) once !
So in the example -3- it is
"blue - black - blue -black -blue"
but once is enought like:
"blue - blue - black - blue -black"
So i think the examples you play a very bad, because for me I thought then it is suppose to be no connceling of blues at all. So I thought between each blues there have to be a black one. But you just need to break the connceling blues up to the point that they don't reach the given number (-3-). Connceling of 3 blues are not allowed, but connceleing of 2 blues (given number - 1) are allowed.
degamer 8 Aug, 2021 @ 9:01am 
This is about the only thing lacking in the game. Many thanks for providing this reference!
Smart Fridge 24 May, 2021 @ 9:36am 
You are officially a part of the cool guys gang.
SCOUNDREL 20 Aug, 2020 @ 2:39pm 
"(it's possible for some to be touching but there must be a gap)"
This right here would have been nice info to have explained in the game. Thanks for saying that, I thought the puzzles were broken.
CynicalShadow 4 Jan, 2020 @ 3:06am 
Thanks for this guide to reference back to.
elisabeth 3 May, 2018 @ 10:09pm 
Thank you, this is really helpful. :)