
It’s essentially Minesweeper, but without the random generation of our ancient friend. Of course, as you proceed these configurations will only get more complex, and will even sprout some new features you might not be expecting. Using these numbers, you can logic out exactly where every marked hexagon is and proceed until every hex has been left- or right-clicked.

Left-clicking marks a hexagon blue, while right-clicking grays out an unmarked hex and reveals its number. From the start a few of them may be grayed out with a number on them, which indicates how many of the hexagons connected to the grayed one need to be marked. Hexcells presents you with a board of orange hexagons, connected in all sorts of patterns. By adding additional dimensions and features to its hand-crafted puzzles, Hexcells essentially perfects the logic puzzles we’ve been burning time on for so many years prior. But that was a flaw that was bound to be corrected eventually in an evolution of the formula, and Hexcells is just that.

It wasn’t perfect, of course, since it occasionally required a little guesswork to complete.
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Minesweeper was a ubiquitous part of Windows for decades because it was such a simple yet engrossing logic puzzler. It pains me to think there might be someone reading this right now who has never played Minesweeper, and not just because the thought makes me feel old.
