Comb Gate Forks

Fone Care

About this app

A quiet offline board game for one player against the computer. The board is a hexagon built out of hexagons, and every match is decided by one of three completely different shapes.

Place one stone per turn on any empty cell. Stones never move and they are never captured. You win the moment a single connected chain of your stones forms any one of these:

RING - a closed loop that surrounds at least one cell. What sits inside does not matter, empty or either colour. A ring touches no edge and no corner, so it can be finished in the middle of an open board with no reference to the sides at all.

BRIDGE - a chain joining any two of the six corner cells at the points of the hexagon.

FORK - a chain touching any three of the six edges. Corner cells belong to no edge, so a corner never helps a fork.

That third possibility changes everything. In most connection games you always know roughly where the danger is, because every winning line has to reach a side. Here a ring can close behind you, in open field, in a single move. Rings are the reason this board rewards looking twice.

WHAT IS INSIDE

- Three opponents. Calm plays sound shapes and rarely looks ahead. Keen weighs every reply one move deep. Sharp searches two moves ahead around both sides' best paths and always answers an immediate threat.
- Two boards: a side six comb of 91 cells, and a wide side eight comb of 169 cells.
- Choose who opens, and switch on the swap rule so whoever did not open may take over the opening stone instead of replying.
- A live goal panel under the board showing how many stones each side still needs for a ring, a bridge and a fork.
- Take back a move whenever you want to try a different idea.
- The winning shape is traced out at the end, because these wins are genuinely easy to miss.
- A full record: wins and losses split by shape, average stones to win, best streak, and twelve honours to earn.
- An illustrated explainer with a small drawn board for each of the three shapes.

MADE TO BE LEFT ALONE

Completely offline. No internet connection is used or needed. No account, no ads, no tracking, no in app purchases, nothing to sign up for.

There is no sound at all, so this is a game you can play anywhere without disturbing anyone. Feedback comes from the board itself and from an optional short haptic buzz you can switch off.

Everything is drawn as vector graphics in a warm beeswax and charcoal palette with a single crimson accent, so the comb stays readable in bright light. Your record is stored on your own device and survives a restart.

Portrait, one hand, any time.