hex | hex game

Hex is a two-player game invented by Piet Hein in 1942 while a student at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, and subsequently and independently by John Nash in 1948 while a mathematics graduate student at Princeton. The game was originally called Nash or John, with the latter name at the same time crediting its inventor and referring to the fact that it was frequently played on the tiled floors of bathrooms. The name Hex was invented in 1952, when a commercial version was issued by the game company Parker Brothers.