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Game Category: Board Games, Strategy Games
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Hex 14x14 board

Hex was invented by the Danish mathematician and poet Piet Hein, who introduced the game in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. The same year Hex appeared in the Danish newspaper Politiken under the name Polygon. Hein introduced the game to the readers on December 26, 1942 and during the following four months gave them a problem each day to begin with - eventually two days a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The solution would always appear in the following column. It was independently invented by mathematician John Nash in 1947 at Princeton University. In 1952, Parker Brothers marketed a version. They called their version Hex, and the name stuck. Hex has the simplest rules of almost any game: connect your color edges with a path of tokens of your color. There is also a "swap rule" (also known as a pie rule) which compensates for the inherent advantage of the first player.
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twixtfanatic Aug 7, 2017 @ 11:31am 
This is called the pie rule because it is like when two people want to share the last of the pie. One person cuts the pie into two slices, and the other chooses which slice to eat.

Using the notation in the above image, suppose black places the first token. It has been proven that a first move in an acute corner (A1 or N14) loses and should not be swapped. Some popular initial moves among strong players, adapted to this 14x14 grid, include A4, A5, and L2. Of course you are encouraged to follow your own ideas.
NETes  [author] Jul 6, 2014 @ 4:36am 
After the first move is made, the second player has one of two options:

1.Letting the move stand, in which case the second player remains the second player and moves immediately, or

2.Switching places, in which case the second player becomes the first-moving player, and the "new" second player then makes their "first" move. (I.e., the game proceeds from the opening move already made, but with roles reversed.)
Bradge Jul 5, 2014 @ 9:42pm 
What is the pie rule?