HexLadders

Haunted Space Hotel Studios

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About this game

Roll the die. Hop along the road. Land on an escalator and ride it up -- land on a slide and whoosh, all the way down.

HexLadders is a race to the top of a winding hex board for one to six players, made for children aged four to eight. There is nothing to read and nothing to work out: tap the die, watch your piece go, and cheer (or groan) at whatever the board does next.

EVERY BOARD IS NEW. The first board is the same for everybody, so a first game is a gentle one. After that the road, the escalators and the slides are built fresh every time you play -- and every board is checked before you see it, so the road never tangles, escalators always go up, slides always come down, and no game drags on forever.

SIX WORLDS TO CLIMB. Each world has six boards, and the boards change shape and grow as you go. Finish a board to open the next one -- the die decides who wins, but nobody gets stuck behind a bad roll.

UP TO SIX PLAYERS ON ONE TABLET. Pass it round the table, or fill the empty seats with the tablet's own players and race them.

WATCH OUT NEAR THE TOP. There is always a slide waiting just before home.

AND THEN THE BOARD STARTS TO TURN. In VORTEX the escalators and slides stay put and the board spins underneath them. Land on a turn space and the whole map turns -- and anyone it leaves at the foot of an escalator or the top of a slide takes the ride. Land on CHOOSE and you pick which way it goes. Hexagon boards and triangle boards, six of them to spin.

- Nothing to read: every button is a picture
- Saves itself after every turn -- put it down and pick it up later
- Big buttons for small fingers, portrait or landscape
- No ads. No accounts. No internet needed. Nothing leaves the device.

The free game is the whole first world, small and medium quick games, and up to two people at the table. One purchase opens all six worlds, VORTEX, huge boards and three to six players -- once, for good, on every device signed in to the same account.

From Haunted Space Hotel Studios.

What’s new

HexLadders' first release. Roll the die, ride the escalators up and dodge the slides on hexagon boards built fresh every game, for one to six players aged four to eight. Six worlds of boards, quick games in four sizes, and VORTEX, where the board itself turns. Nothing to read, no ads, no accounts, no internet needed.