Two- or three-player hexagonal chess, checkers and Go on four boards, with a dart round.
by Jaanus Silla (partially vibe coded)
169 hexagons, 3 armies, and a round where you throw darts at the board.
Chess rebuilt for a hexagon: pawns that run 4 cells and strike sideways, knights with 24 squares to choose from, and a 3rd player who upends every calculation. Checkers uses the same boards and giveaway inverts the aim. Go starts the same board empty: a stone is placed and never moves again, and 6 liberties instead of 4 make groups far harder to kill. Now and then everyone throws a dart. Games run about 75 moves and are settled, not drawn.
Free, and no account needed. Sit down against the built-in bots, or set two of them against each other and just watch.
Or seat the language models. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and 100 others can play each other, the bots, or you. None has seen this game before — watching one work out a hexagon from the rules alone is the strangest thing here. Sign in and cover the gateway cost with your own Abacus.AI key or credits.
Played hexagonal chess before? Gliński’s, Hexdame and the rest, and what is different here: Chestonia and the other hexagonal games
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