# Tantrix Lab — Play Tantrix online

> Play Tantrix online (iPhone/iPad app by Mark Hebberd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tantrix-lab/id6821554447 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mark Hebberd](https://appshunter.io/developer/6821554449)
- Category: Games, Board, Strategy
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-05
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Tantrix Lab?

Tantrix Lab is a place to play Tantrix online, the hexagon tile game of strategy and luck.

Every tile carries three coloured lines. Lay your tiles so the colours match wherever they touch, fill the forced spaces, and make the longest line or loop in your colour.

Play a friend in real time, or over days with a move whenever you have a moment. Challenge anyone on the site, and play in tournaments.

Play a robot. Doorbot is for new players or anyone wanting a fun game. Wobot plays a strong, fast game. Darwin wins, don't feel bad.

Solve puzzles. Tactics are positions from real games where one placement is far better than any other. Discovery asks you to make a loop with all the tiles.

Meet the people you play. Message anyone on the site, start a group for your club or your family, share photos and reactions, and talk by video or voice without leaving the app. Follow the players you like, and see when they are on.

New to the game? How to Play shows the rules with animated diagrams.

Free, with no adverts, in 14 languages.

## Is Tantrix Lab safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Tantrix Lab.

## Is Tantrix Lab legit?

Tantrix Lab has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Tantrix Lab is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 81 — 2026-11-10

Fixed a crash some phones hit when moving between games.
A tournament's finished rounds start closed, showing just the players and their TPs, beside the match their winners went on to. Click a round's name to see its games.
When someone accepts your invitation you stay where you are, and the new game waits in Active games. Timed games still open for both players once you have both said go.
Notifications are now one summary of everything waiting for you, replaced each time something happens. Opening a game or reading a message takes it off the summary on all your devices, and the summary goes once nothing is left.

### 79 — 2026-11-09

A tournament's finished rounds start closed, showing just the players and their TPs, beside the match their winners went on to. Click a round's name to see its games.
When someone accepts your invitation you stay where you are, and the new game waits in Active games. Timed games still open for both players once you have both said go.
Notifications are now one summary of everything waiting for you, replaced each time something happens. Opening a game or reading a message takes it off the summary on all your devices, and the summary goes once nothing is left.

### 74 — 2026-11-08

Signing in as someone else no longer leaves the game the last account was watching in the top bar.
Your opponent's tiles are all back in their hand when their turn begins, not left out on the board from their last turn.
Editing or deleting a message in Everyone changes it in the list of conversations too.
When a Chromecast is on your network, a small cast button sits next to History in a game and opens the Chromecast menu. Casting problems are shown in that menu, not over the game, and walking out of range and back no longer leaves the television behind.
The finished games chart can count each human v human game as two.
Discovery puzzles have their name translated in Russian and Korean.
In dark mode, the player suggested when you search for someone to follow is readable.
Choosing your country in your profile offers to show the app in that country's language, if it is one the app has.
A tournament's How it works now says exactly how tournament points are shared out in a game, with a table, and how running out of time and abandoned games affect them.
Old versions of the app now ask to be updated, and very old ones need updating before they can be used.
Tantrix Lab is on the App Store. On an iPhone or iPad the site points you at it.
Opening the lobby no longer flashes up games in Active games that then vanish.
Group chats have calls: up to six people, video or voice, and anyone in the group can join one that is already running.
The lobby's chat is on the right, after the players and the robots.
Choosing from the menu while a game is still opening no longer leaves the menu stuck on screen.
Leaving the iPhone app during a video call turns your camera off straight away, rather than leaving the other person with a frozen picture.

### 63 — 2026-11-06

Tantrix Lab is on the App Store. On an iPhone or iPad the site points you at it.
Opening the lobby no longer flashes up games in Active games that then vanish.
The lobby's chat is on the right, after the players and the robots.
A game that ended while you were away no longer flashes up in the sidebar each time you open Tantrix Lab.
Playing a move withdraws your offer to resign.
On a narrow phone the Recap and History buttons above the board drop their words and show only their icons, so they no longer cover your opponent's clock.
A robot game you walk away from late, with the robot well ahead, counts as a game played on the leaderboards and your profile.
Chat beside a game catches up after a dropped connection, rather than waiting for you to open the conversation in Messages.
In a game against a person, a tile that fits only one way round stays that way when tapped, and its rotate button agrees.
After a long time away, the list of conversations in Messages shows the latest message in each and puts them in the right order.
A group's member count catches up after your phone has been asleep.
Tantrix Lab speaks French, German, Hungarian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Polish, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and American. Pick a language on the sign-in page or in Site settings, where each has its flag; a browser set to one of them gets it straight away.
A game you are watching is purple in the sidebar, open or not. Each end shows its player's colour while they are at the board.
New nicknames are 15 characters at most, with no spaces. Existing ones stay as they are.
The lobby's Tournaments card shows every tournament to come, every one under way and the last one won, side by side. It no longer jumps in after the page loads.
Settings has a Forced tiles card: sliders for how faint and how small the tiles the game fills in on forced spaces are, and a switch for their green glow, with a preview. Fainter or smaller makes the tile you are playing stand out.
The glow round a tile you have placed lies under the tiles beside it, is as wide as the glow in your hand, and fades in and out.
An @ in the Everyone chat offers every member, not only those who spoke recently or are online.
The lobby has a Most welcoming users board: who played the most first games with new players, over the last month or year.
A tournament lists its players in the order they entered.
Cast a game to a Chromecast from the game menu, from the app or from Chrome on a computer. Pick Follow my games and the television changes game when you do.
A tournament's page shows every game of each match, finished or not. Each says whether it is complete or active.
On a phone, the first-move countdown in a tournament game no longer runs into your clock.
The first-move countdown in a tournament game no longer turns up once the game is under way, and it goes away when the clock starts.
The group details window opens over the top of the menu bar, so you can see all of it on a phone.
Sharing from another app to the conversation you already have open now puts it in the message box, instead of losing it.
A third Shift+Enter in a row in a message no longer sends the cursor to the end of what you have written.
A tournament can give everyone a game in round 1 instead of byes. The losers with the most TPs fill the empty places in round 2.
The analysis panel suggests moves for tiles you have put out on the board too. Clicking a suggestion lays it out as your next tile, and never plays it for you.
The squares a tile could go to no longer stay lit after you have played it.
On a computer, point at one of your tiles laid out on the board and the squares it could go to light up, as they do for a tile in your hand.
Tap a see-through forced tile to turn it the other way round, where its space takes it two ways. It no longer turns to ways that do not fit.

### 34 — 2026-11-05

No release notes.

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