Roll the die, ride the escalators, dodge the slides. A board game for ages 4-8.
HexLadders is out now on Google Play and the App Store. Free to install and free to keep playing. One optional purchase, paid once, and no adverts of any kind — ever.
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.
Watch out near the top. There is always a slide waiting just before home.
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.
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.
Pass it round the table, or fill the empty seats with the tablet’s own players and race them.
Every button is a picture, every tap target is big enough for a small finger, and it plays in portrait or landscape. It saves itself after every turn, so a game can be put down and picked up later.
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