This is more advanced strategy for intermediate player but the opportunity presents itself to explain and try. At the very least we have dropped 6 tiles in a relative dead zone. There is no play to complete start of a star in the middle red tiles. Stars rotate and surrounding tiles do the same. We are working on the blue tiles in both stars. Can not rotate the upper star because the will cause the below red tiles to cluster and star fall. We will take out the red and the blue tile in upper star will fall to lower star and become attached. Same column upper red dropping will probably cluster. This is written before move is made. Right pic shows results - didn't go exactly as planned. A bust for now - we will come back to it. Another potential star appears from the dropping tiles.
3 down and 3 to go. Fourth star in two moves. Hexic doesn't always go this easy from the get go.
Kinda bonehead, but I had to illustrate getting the star. In left pic we see the luck we had in no orange dropping in column next to left of star. Now we have 4 stars in right pic, 3 of them in one column. No big deal, they will not cluster if dropped. Our next move of rotating a star is to move the orange tile in place for another star.
Look at the combos to go in last above right pic, shows 26. Rotating a star and not creating a cluster does not bring down combo number, sorta like a free move. In left pic game help created the yellow circle around the purple tile, telling us to move that purple tile into the others. Rotating the left star is next move - star forming like clockwork. Right pic shows results of two star rotation - one move from getting our fifth star and combos to go still at 26.
A few clusters occurred when tiles fell from exploding star. Five stars now - what is our next strategic move? Start positioning the stars for pearl placement or get our sixth star?
