Hex for iPad for Android

11 things about Hex for iPad

1. John Nash proved in 1952 that a game of Hex cannot end in a tie, and that for a symmetric board there exists a winning strategy for the player who makes the first move (by the strategy-stealing argument).

2. Hex is a strategy board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11×11 rhombus.

3. The turn of each player is shown by a red or blue disc on a side of the board game.

4. According to the book A Beautiful Mind, John Nash (one of the game's inventors) advocated 14×14 as the optimal size.

5. The goal is to form a connected path of your stones linking the opposing sides of the board marked by your color, before your opponent connects his or her sides in a similar fashion.

6. The first player to complete his or her connection wins the game.

7. Hex is an abstract strategy game that belongs to the general category of "connection" games.

8. The game was invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein, who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute.

9. Players take turns placing a stone of their color on a single cell within the overall playing board.

10. Other popular dimensions are 13×13 and 19×19 as a result of the game's relationship to the older game of Go.

11. Each player has an allocated color, Red and Blue being conventional.