Tantrix.com

Dave Dyer

About this game

Welcome to Tantrix.com - a spatial game of colour and strategy - now available on mobiles!

This fascinating New Zealand game was invented in 1988 and has since won numerous awards worldwide for its quality, beauty and elegance. It consists of 56 unique hexagonal tiles connected by red, green, blue and yellow paths. Players must try to block or control their opponents path-colour while simultaneously growing their own.

Online Tantrix has been available for nearly 20 years, and now with this app you can compete against the international Tantrix community on your mobile. Or challenge the resident robot opponent to a game anytime!
Tantrix is simple enough to learn, yet with the possibility to be infinitely complex. Unlike conventional strategy games such as chess, in Tantrix the ratio of skill and luck varies from game to game.
The best player usually wins, but not always!

Great for training strategic thinking, spatial ability, problem solving, planning and also memory skills.

Ratings and reviews

Wow, this is excellent! The gameplay is fluid, and I had no problem playing the robot (on a Samsung edge 6). I was worried that there would be false positives on the tile selection or placement, but everything was perfect, and after a few seconds I even forgot I was playing on a tiny board. A lot of thought has also gone into the layout - I found it most comfortable in landscape mode, but that's maybe just because I'm used to the pc version. Congratulations Dave :-)

I was gifted this game as a physical tile game and got to say it has a few play modes from solitare (good way to learn) to 4 player. It's open hands so you don't just focus on your own 'deck' when you become more experienced the game becomes more advanced. Online lobby isn't that popular but you can get games. The tile game itself is really good though and worth exploring.

Dragging the pieces around is a /little/ bit awkward but overall this is a fantastic and smooth little game to kill 10-30 min with a friend.