Block the Pig is a tiny puzzle that eats huge chunks of time—in a good way. It’s you vs. one very motivated pig on a honeycomb board. Each turn you drop a stone; each turn the pig scoots one hex toward the edge. If it reaches the border, you oink-lose. If you fence it in, you win and feel like a mastermind.

How it plays
You start with the pig near the center. Tap or click a hex to place a wall, then watch the pig make its next move along whatever path is open. Sounds simple, but hex grids connect on six sides, so new “sneak lanes” appear fast. The trick is less about chasing the pig and more about shaping the map—building a loose ring first, then squeezing until there’s literally nowhere left to trot.

What makes it click
Block the Pig dumps the fluff and gives you pure logic. No timers, no RNG chaos—just reading paths and thinking two moves ahead. You’ll notice patterns fast: corridors, pinch points, and forked routes where one perfect stone shuts down two options. When the pig pivots, you pivot cleaner. Every trap you set teaches the next one.

Tips from a fellow grinder
1) Open wide: place your first stones a few tiles out to sketch a circle; too close and it slips past the side.
2) Cut diagonals: if two routes converge, wall the merge point and you delete both.
3) Save a stopper: keep one “emergency” hex in mind to plug the final gap when the pig panics.
4) Watch the shortest path: imagine a line to the edge and aim your blocks to make that line longer every turn.

Two related brainy picks
• Checkers Legend — practice clean trades, corner traps, and king routes that punish bad moves.
• Pushbox — Sokoban-style pushes where one wrong step means a full rethink (and a very satisfying fix).

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BLOCK THE PIG is free to play on Classroom Center G. It loads fast, runs in your browser and works on school Chromebooks — perfect for a quick 5–10 minute break.