Inside, you'll find 150 unique puzzles, including 10 bonus puzzles that are bigger and more difficult.
The book also has a chapter on strategies you can use to conquer boards, ranging from simple strategies to help get you into the game,
to complex strategies that will enable you to solve even ultra-difficult boards. There is also a chapter that
delves into the mathematical beauties and complexities of Hexakai.
Give it a shot, and see if you enjoy Hexakai in this paper-and-pencil format!
Watch the Playthroughs
Every week, I select a daily puzzle from that week and record my own playthrough,
where I describe my thought process, make progress, and solve the board.
I don't do any prep or review before I start, which means that I myself don't know how
things will turn out until the end of the video.
You can also watch this video, and past playthroughs, directly via my channel on YouTube,
which also features Hexakai speedruns, logic and math puzzles, and other great content!
Enjoy Puzzles?
If you enjoy Hexakai, consider trying out Brandon's other puzzles in his book, Mental Mosaics.
Mental Mosaics is a collection of 200 unique
puzzles and challenges on an eclectic range of subjects, including clocks and calendars, liars, demons,
chess boards, rotatable words, and hidden infinities. Each chapter is a self-contained unit that focuses
on its own unique subject, starts with one or two simple puzzles to set the tone, progresses to a number
of moderately difficult puzzles, and concludes with a small number of highly difficult puzzles to test
your mastery. This book includes 184 novel puzzles created by the author, Brandon Quinn, and ends with
16 puzzles that are famous across the world, concluding with The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever.
About the Author
Brandon Quinn is a
writer and software engineer whose work spans logic puzzles, mystery fiction,
and explorations of critical thinking and rationality. He created the game
of Hexakai, a Sudoku-inspired game of hexagons, and authored Mental
Mosaics and Method Matters, along with books on quarter-tone composition
and saxophone technique.
Outside of writing, Brandon develops software with a focus on
systems design and problem-solving and works to find creative
intersections between technology, mathematics, and the arts.