* Hex ( or cell )— in hexagon-based board games, this is the common term for a standard space on the board.

" Hex " is a prefix meaning six.

The data is shown in Hex octet values as a single dump and followed by a header

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.

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

Since the first player to move in Hex has a distinct advantage, the pie rule is generally implemented for fairness.

In other words, Hex is a determined game.

: Since Hex is a finite, perfect information game that cannot end in a tie, either the first or second player must possess a winning strategy.

An important concept in the theory of Hex is the template.

Hex is a connection game, and can be classified as a Maker-Breaker game, a particular type of positional game.

In 1981, Stefan Reisch proved that generalized Hex on a nxn board is PSPACE-complete.

The game of Y is a generalization of Hex to the extent that any position on a Hex board can be represented as an equivalent position on a larger Y board.

Mind Ninja is another game that is a generalization of Hex, albeit a rather broad one.

Unlike Hex, this game is not known to be PSPACE hard.

Pex is nearly identical to Hex, except that it's played on a rhombus-shaped tiling of irregular pentagons, instead of regular hexagons.

Hecks is yet another variant of Hex in which the tiles of the square board are irregular polygons and the graph formed by polygon edges is trivalent, i. e. each node has precisely three incident arcs.

In Hogfather, Ridcully is impressed by Hex, the UU " computer ", and asks if there is any chance they could fit a similar one in the Dean's head.

Hex is the UU's first mainframe computer, though instead of RAM, it has ram skulls, and its mouse is an actual mouse.

The last category is the Minor Arcana's Stone ( Hex Masters ) which itself comprises several types of magicians.

In a game which cannot end in a draw, such as Hex, the pie rule theoretically gives the second player a win ( since one of the players must have a winning strategy after the first move and the second player can choose to be this player ), but the practical result is that the first player will choose a move neither too strong nor too weak, and the second player will have to decide whether the first move advantage is worth it.

Jonah Hex, from the DC Comics, is a ruthless bounty hunter bound by a personal code of honor to protect and avenge the innocent.

Jonah Hex was inspired to become a bounty hunter after murdering his first criminal, the outlaw Lucas " Mad Dog " McGill.

Jonah Hex continues to act as a bounty hunter until the age of 66 in 1904, where he is married to a Native American woman named Tall Bird.

Police Chief John Cromwell didn't take kindly to Arkham's theories, nor to the eventual recruitment of bounty hunter Jonah Hex, who had recently caused a stir by coming to town.

Winter, 1866: Jonah takes his first job bounty hunting by tracking down an old Confederate buddy, Eddie Cantwell ( Jonah Hex vol.

The track describes Hex as " the rider with the gash: the bounty hunter Jonah Hex whose guns shot two-by-two ".

Kent is seeking revenge against Jonah Hex, a bounty hunter Kent claims killed fourteen innocent men.

: Once the Leaguers find him, with the help of a certain bounty hunter, Jonah Hex and other figures: ( Bat Lash, Ohiyesa Smith, and El Diablo ).

"), he would become the head of the students whose experiments with High Energy Magic would lead to the creation of Hex, and eventually a member of the Faculty where the more senior members generally treat him as the odd-jobs man.

In the 1800s, Vandal Savage-under the name of " Monsewer Sauvage " and currently weak from a cancer in his intenstines-wants Jonah Hex to eliminate the man who has been attacking his men, while Savage attempts to torture a woman whose family have been entrusted with a box, marked with the symbol of the bat, that they are to keep sealed until its owner comes to claim it.

She first appears as a temperamental supermodel until an agent of the Agenda slices the right side of her face, at which point she started claiming to be Jonah Hex.

A young Martha Clark begs Kent not to face Hex, but Kent is determined.

This actor, naming himself " The Chameleon ", was eventually hideously scarred in a fire started by Hex, and he vowed vengeance.

During this time, they still produced prolifically for artists on their new label as well as continuing Solid Steel on Kiss FM, running the night club Stealth ( Club of the Year in the NME, The Face, and Mixmag in 1996 ) and multimedia work with Hex.

* Hex ( Doctor Who ), a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who

* Jonah Hex ( film ), a 2010 film based on the DC Comics character

* Hex ( board game ), a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11x11 rhombus

In 2002, Jing Yang, Simon Liao and Mirek Pawlak found an explicit winning strategy for the first player on Hex boards of size 7x7.

Mind Ninja differs from Hex also in that it can be played on any tiled surface, and each player may fill in a cell with any available color, rather than just one.

Utilizing the same board and pieces as Hex, Chameleon gives the players the option of placing a piece of either color on the board.

* Thesis on Hex history, classification and complexity

* Theory page gathering theoretical work on Hex

An ultra-weak solution ( e. g. Chomp or Hex on a sufficiently large board ) generally does not affect playability.

Because of several club remixes created mainly by Hex Hector, the song peaked at number 2 on the Hot Dance Club Play.

Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic, Praelector and Reader in Invisible Writings, the Master of Traditions, the Camerlengo of Unseen University, and among other positions, the keeper of Hex, the University's computer, Ponder Stibbons fulfills the role of the one person in the organisation who knows what's going on.

* Daddy Freddy – back-up vocals on " Nix Hex "

The tradition of Hex signs painted on Pennsylvania barns in some areas originally relates to this tradition, as the symbols were pentagrams thought to have talismanic properties ; though many current hex signs are made simply for decoration.

Though critical response was mixed, Hex Angel: Utopia / Dystopia ranked # 1 on Germany's Deutsche Alternative Charts ( DAC ) for four weeks after its release, and the album's single, " Pretty Toy ", reached # 18 on the Billboard Alternative Chart during the same year.