BumpHex

BumpHex is checkers for young children, from age four up. There is no jumping. There is bumping. Move one piece to any hex touching it — forwards, sideways, backwards, it is all the same move. Every enemy piece standing next to where you landed gets shoved one hex directly away from you. Shove somebody off the edge of the board and they are out. Shove them into another piece and both of them go. That is the whole game. A four-year-old can play it with you on the little boards; a five-year-old plays it alone, and a six-year-old starts playing it to win. BUILT FOR PLAYERS WHO CANNOT READ YET The first time BumpHex opens, it teaches itself. A hand moves from a piece to a hex, the hex glows, the thing happens, and a tick appears. Six lessons, one rule each, no words that have to be read and no way to fail — a wrong tap simply shows the hand again. HOW TO PLAY sits on the front screen for…