These are the tiles that do all this and more — a hexagonal set of dominoes with every combination of 6 colors, plus one of each color as a single hex:

We show here a growing collection of results and solutions contributed by happy players. To our great delight, some are as young as 8 years old.

Matching Patches

All same size and same shape color regions divide each color into two groups of 4 hexes. The first person ever to find such a solution was Emily Clark, on August 29, 2009, in Ye Olde Gamery at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville, MD. Here is Emily with her history-making solution, "12 Eggs":

Soon other solvers got the idea and expanded the search to other patches of 4 hexes in size. See how neat and regular each packing looks.

Polyhex Patches

Here each patch is different in size or shape and models polyhexes from 1 to 5 in area. Compare these to the pieces of the Hexnut Jr. set.

Symmetry Patterns

Look carefully at each design to see how the colors have a rotational symmetry, or how some colors are opposite others.

At Hexdominoes' world premiere at the 2009 Maryland Renaissance Festival, Marty Roger was the very first solver to create a rotational design, and he's only 8 years old. Here he holds his amazing solution.

Daniel Austin created this series of symmetry designs, each more elegant than the last, while working as a member of Ye Olde Gamery's crew during the 2009 season. Thus he has many opportunities to surprise the rest of us with exquisite new designs. It's gratifying to see our products' full potential emerge in the hands of a skillful solver. Dan has also become adept at many of our strategy games and can teach them to visitors who are looking for competitive thrills.

Daniel's ever more sophisticated rotational symmetries and color groupings:

Hard to categorize

These three solutions by Kate came from a search for the extreme. Left: Color pairs fold to form 6 triangles (outlined in white). Each triangle is composed of a different color group. Only the pairs on the border are the actual color double tiles. Right: The maximum color grouping possible, with 3 colors fully joined and the other 3 with 7 joined, leaving only three single hexes floating. And this pattern is fully symmetrical as well. Can it get better than this? Well, yes, we can fully join 4 colors (below), but the search for maximum connectedness goes on.

New patterns with unusual characteristics will continue to be posted here as they are discovered. Coming soon:   Our new domain, hexdominoes.com, will be on the air shortly with many more challenges and interactive features.