Generally speaking, most bonus games are either milestone based or you have to hit a certain outcome (e.g. a RF in Video Poker). Hex 3 is a typical milestone game of collecting enough milestones to get that particular award. In milestone games, it’s a cost benefit analysis: you compare the value of the prize (or award) to cost per milestone (and total costs based on milestones needed).
The “base” game is a 5 column by 3 row game and above each column is a different prize, respectively. The middle column prize is the progressive (based on each respective wager amount) and the prizes for the other columns are monetary awards or a bonus (round). You can also win the progressive prize in the bonus round.
I played it to get an understanding of the game to see how the game was designed, e.g. my group focuses on the math as well as design exploits. The “milestones” come at different rates: fastest for column 2 & 3 and slowest for column 3 (progressive award) such that the rate for columns 1 & 5 are between the fastest and slowest rates, respectively.
Once you get a milestone (in a particular column), it increases the row for that column. For example, if your first milestone is column 2, then columns 1, 3, 4 & 5 remaining at 3 rows but column 2 is now at 4 rows. Get to row #9 and you win that prize for that column. Because your rows are increasing over time, the number of ways to win (or winning paylines increases), respectively.
Your “equity” is the number of paylines as well as how many rows above the baseline of 3 rows for each respective column. Other things being equal, you want to chase the bonus on columns 2 & 4 rather than on columns 1 & 5.
The math is very challenging as your average cost per milestone is dynamic and decreases as the rows increase for that particular column. Basically, the average cost per milestone is not static like typical milestone based bonus games.
Nice tweet by a guy who won over $5K in credits by playing without a W2G event: https://mobile.twitter.com/MoshiMosh...18176179982336 (and in the photo, the guy is one milestone away from the $40 prize on column 4).
Here’s another tweet showing the game has been out since December of last year:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PokerBrad...03981096845312
Folks, lots of people have been tweeting about this game. Good luck.