2026-09-29 · history
Hex (1942) — The Year a Hexagon in the Corner of a Newspaper Ruled Out a Draw
In 1942, a hexagonal board appeared in a newspaper in occupied Denmark. Six years later, John Nash independently rediscovered it at Princeton. From a proof that the game can never end in a draw to the modern genre of "connection games" and the lineage of game-playing AI, this traces what Hex left behind.
