Hextraction: The World's Most Annoying Tile in the World

You'll regret printing this tile. I regret making this tile. Your friends will refuse to play another round after playing against this tile. This tile is a net loss to society at large, and especially to Hextraction, the hackable 3D-printable board game. It's also tile 5 of 5 in Hextraction Booster Pack 3: Practical F-Hex.

The World's Most Annoying Tile in the World takes any ball from any direction, even launched in from below, and dumps it right through the board. Since Rules Update 1, this no longer destroys the tile, making the TWMATITW an everlasting sinkhole that permanently grinds the game to a halt. It's very annoying.

But the annoyance doesn't stop at mere gameplay:

• It LOOKS annoying. When printed in one color, it seems to get a layer shift failure. In two colors, it looks misaligned.
• It's annoying to print. The bottom layer is super thin and likely to detach. The included sign has sharp corners that love to curl. The file names might crash some printers (and brains).
• It makes YOU annoying. This tile has to be voted off the board, so everyone knows where to direct their frustrations.
• It's annoyingly elegant. It doesn't have any moving parts, any tricky physics, or any fun rules. Instead of a rules card, it has a very large, very annoying sign to remind other players to be annoyed.
• It's an affront to good taste. The included sign A) exists, B) features Comic Sans AND Papyrus, C) reminds you that you can feel your tongue and D) is massive and top-heavy and will make the tile fall off the board. Also E) it says 'world' on it twice and F) the Papyrus text is 1.5mm too thick for no reason.
• It's annoying to think about. None of the angles on the sign are 90 degrees. None of the text is aligned, and each line is intentionally kemed wrong.
• It's philosophically annoying. This is the only Hextraction tile to which I will not release the source. The only way to get these files, which Thangs can infinitely copy for free, is by giving me ten bucks.
• It's annoying to play. I imperceptibly shrunk five of the tabs, so even though the tile COULD work in any orientation, it won't. But it looks like it does, so you'll have to trial-and-error fit it in.

Annoying printing instructions:

1. Drag desired files into correct program
2. Configure appropriate settings
3. If you're printing the sign, glue some bits of filament in back for signposts
4. Forgot to say "print it" before.
5. There's a multicolor version and a single-color version
6. If you're attaching the sign, use a non-snapping filament like ABS.
7. You need to widen the holes with a drill bit. I made them too small.

This tile was inspired, as it were, by Thee, a volunteer at the Hextraction booth in Open Sauce 2023. They designed a special tile with a huge logo - so huge, none of the six paths led anywhere, causing an instant logjam that was amusing, but mildly irritating. I decided to improve the design, and by 'improve' I mean 'worsen on physical, conceptual, and philosophical axes.'

Future improvements could include:

• Sound
• Aroma
• Logan Paul quotes
• A reference to M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender"
• A rickroll
• BEEEEEEEES

Wow, that description is annoyingly long. I lied, here's the source: https://a360.co/3Y7RWA5