Unlike in Marathon and Timed modes, clearing pieces from the playfield does not automatically cause new ones to fall from the top. Survival mode challenges the player to completely clear the playfield. Creating starflowers also increases the maximum amount of time available, up to two minutes. The amount of time increases with successful clears, and resets to its maximum value when the player forms a starflower. Hexic offers two variations on the standard Marathon mode: In Timed mode, a timer constantly counts down toward zero, and the game ends when time runs out. Defusing a bomb by clustering it with at least one multiplier piece of the same colour causes all pieces of the same colour as the bomb to instantly clear from the playfield. The counter on the bomb counts down with each move, and if allowed to reach zero, it explodes and the game is over. A bomb is coloured like other pieces on the board and can be defused by rotating it into a cluster or flower of the same colour. The ultimate goal of the game is to form a cluster or flower of black pearls, after which the game will end.īombs appear occasionally throughout the game.

Forming a flower of silver-stars changes the center piece into a black pearl, which allows the player to move three surrounding pieces in a Y or inverted Y pattern.

A gold-star allows the player to rotate all surrounding pieces clockwise or counterclockwise. The surrounding pieces are cleared, and the center piece is replaced by a silver-star (unless the center piece was already a silver-star, in which case a new silver-star drops from the top). The player can create a 'gold-star' by arranging six like-coloured pieces into a hexagon or 'flower', surrounding a piece of a different colour or type. Bonuses are awarded for clearing more than three pieces at a time, and some pieces contain bonus stars, which yield extra points and can clear larger groups of pieces depending on how they are cleared. Pieces above the cleared pieces fall, potentially forming more clusters and causing chain reactions, and new pieces appear at the top of the playfield. Clusters are formed when three pieces of the same colour touch each other. The objective of Hexic is to rotate hexagonal pieces of various colours and clear them from the playfield by forming clusters or flowers.

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