number of players | 2 people playing time | 15 minutes minimum age | 4 years random chance | none

publisher | Parker Brothers genre | abstract strategy game | connection game skills required | strategic thinking

Hex (also called Nash) 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.