* 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.

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.

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 ).

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

This house ad contains the first published images of Jonah Hex, as well as two dialogue-filled comic strip panels not used in his first " full-story appearance ".

In a 2010 interview with Filipino journalist Anna Valmero, DeZuniga described the moment he first conceived the image that would become Jonah Hex: " When I went to my doctor, I saw this beautiful chart of the human anatomy.

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

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

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.

The character first appeared late in season eight, in the episode " Hex ".

The argument is commonly employed in games where there can be no draw to show that first player has a winning strategy, such as in Hex.

The term was first used to describe the band Bark Psychosis and their album Hex ( 1994 ), but was soon employed for bands such as Stereolab, Laika, Disco Inferno and Pram and other acts in America and Canada.

Hex first appeared in the play The Harvest ( 2004 ), where he met the Doctor and Ace while the two were investigating signs of alien activity at St. Gart's.

Cole's first lead role was that of Cassie Hughes in Hex.

The first segment, “ Hex and the City ”, was written by Joel Cohen.

This first version, known simply as Hex, fused an interest in computer programming and animation with their talent for video design and knowledge of club culture to create a range of multimedia projects.

He discovers that he's Cassie's son during his first encounter with Hex in The Harvest.

Cohen had previously received a credit for " Hex and the City ", the first segment of " Treehouse of Horror XII " which aired the previous year.

* Gemma, first series of the Sky One supernatural Television series Hex in the United Kingdom

The term was first used to describe the band Bark Psychosis and their album Hex ( 1994 ), but was soon employed for bands such as Stereolab, Laika, Disco Inferno and Pram and other acts in America and Canada.

* Hex ( Discworld ), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels

* Hex ( video game ), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST

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.

Hex is a fictional computer featuring in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.

First appearing in Soul Music, Hex is an elaborate, magic-powered and self-building computer, ( not unlike a ' shamble '; a kind of magical device used by the Witches of the Discworld ,) and is housed in the basement of the High Energy Magic Building, at the Unseen University ( UU ), in the Twin city of Ankh-Morpork.

Hex is a computer unlike any other the Disc has ever seen, ( which is not particularly hard since previously all other " computers " on the Disc had consisted of druidic stone circles ).

Hex can now be given input through a huge wooden keyboard, in analogue writing by means of a complicated mechanical eye designed by Hex itself, or vocally through an old hearing trumpet, and gives output by means of a series of wooden blocks and later a quill on a hinged lever ( echoing the real-world evolution of computer output from paper tape to video monitor ).

There is also a mouse ( a possible reference to a " computer mouse ,") that has built its nest in the middle of Hex.

As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons, Chinese Chess, Go, Lines of Action, Hex and Octi.