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Hex-Retro is a two player abstract strategy board game in which players attempt to
connect opposite sides of a rhombus-shaped board made of hexagonal cells. Hex was
invented by mathematician and poet Piet Hein in 1942 and later rediscovered and
popularized by John Nash.
It is traditionally played on an 11×11 rhombus board, although 13×13 and 19×19
boards are also popular. The board is composed of hexagons called cells or hexes.
Each player is assigned a pair of opposite sides of the board, which they must try
to connect by alternately placing a stone of their color onto any empty hex. Once
placed, the stones are never moved or removed. A player wins when they successfully
connect their sides together through a chain of adjacent stones. Draws are
impossible in Hex due to the topology of the game board.
Despite the simplicity of its rules, the game has deep strategy and sharp tactics.
It also has profound mathematical underpinnings related to the Brouwer fixed-point
theorem, matroids and graph connectivity. The game was first published under the
name Polygon in the Danish newspaper Politiken on December 26, 1942. It was later
marketed as a board game in Denmark under the name Con-tac-tix, and Parker
Brothers marketed a version of it in 1952 called Hex; they are no longer in
production. Hex can also be played with paper and pencil on hexagonally ruled
graph paper.
Hex-Retro has the following features:
- Save/Load Game
- Sound Settings
- 1280 x 768 Windowed Mode
- Full Screen Mode
- New look and feel
- No Ads!
- No hidden data connections!
Status: | Development |
Platforms: | HTML5, Windows, Linux |
Genre: | Strategy Board Game |
Languages: | English |
Inputs: | Keyboard, Mouse, Touchpad |