How to play Hex Minesweeper
Honeycomb is minesweeper on hexagons, with a bear minding the hive: six neighbours instead of eight, so every number is quicker to read.
- Open every honey cell that has no bee in it.
- A number counts the bees in the six cells around it.
- Mark a cell you are sure of as a bee. Marks are optional.
- Open a bee and you get stung. Play goes on, but the result counts the sting.
Step by step
- 1 A number counts the bees in the six cells around it.1
- 2 Sure about a bee? Switch to Bee and tap to mark it, or long-press or right-click it. Tap again to take it off.1
- 3 Tap a number whose marks match it to open the rest around it.2
- 4 A wrong tap is a sting, not the end. The bee shows and play goes on.1
- 5 Hint: tap for where, tap again for why.1
What you see
Honey, not opened yet.
Your bee mark. Marks are optional.
A bee that stung you.
Solving tips
- Begin at the opened centre and work outwards along its edge.
- A cell with six neighbours leaves less room than a square, so a 3 or 4 is often already settled.
- Use the bee count: near the end it can tell you exactly how many bees are left in a corner.
Questions
- Is hex minesweeper free?
- Yes. It is free to play, with no account and nothing to download.
- Is there a daily hex minesweeper?
- Yes. A new Honeycomb every day, the same for every player, and it can always be finished by logic from the opened centre, with no guess.
- How many levels are there?
- The daily plus a growing library of extra honeycombs in three difficulties, from 7 up to 11 cells across.