Tessera is a home for the connection games — six of them, one rated ladder, a computer opponent in the browser, and a puzzle that changes every day. Challenge anyone on a shared link. No account required to play the machine.

The four line games share an engine; a seventh k-in-a-row title is a row in a table. Hex and Dots & Boxes have their own rules, not a costume.

In this pack: - Six complete games with playable AI - Shared-link challenges and a rated ladder - Daily tactics puzzles - A Pro membership tier with three payment modes - Admin / moderator tools and a seed of 26 players with real match history - Hundreds of automated checks on the rules

If you have been looking for a board-game site that is not another chess clone, play one Hex game on the demo and then decide.