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HexaLex is familiar yet different to the word games you know and love. It is at its core similar to Scrabble-derived word games played on boards, but the unique shape of the board creates some new wrinkles. The main one is that you can form a pair of two-letter letter junk words in the course of making a legitimate play, which is put in place because of the complexities that the hexagonal board brings – you have so many more tiles touching, so some leeway was necessary to allow the game to flow. Beyond that, other tweaks like varying word values and bonuses for using 5, 6 or 7 of your tiles exist, to alter your usual word game strategies.
In response to player feedback, HexaLex, a popular word game available for iPhone and iPod Touch, has updated to introduce "Shuffle Match" mode. HexaLex is a new style of word game; it plays like Scrabble, but is on a hexagonal board that allows players to put words down in three directions instead of just two.
From gamerstemple.com: Overall, HexaLex is a great little game that should appeal to anyone who enjoys Scrabble. The need to think in more than two directions and the fast-playing games separate it from its crossword-like inspiration, and it makes for a nice change of pace from that storied classic.
On This Episode:
* Carter talks about HexaLex with its developer, Nathan Gray. We discuss the surprising difficulties of making a word game with a hexagonal board, and what the new 2.0 update to the game brings.
* Carter and Eddy Boxerman talk about the port of Osmos to the iPad, how the game started out on the iOS, and the decision to go with a separate iPad build instead of a universal build.
