Hex was invented by the Danish mathematician and poet Piet Hein, who introduced the game in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independently invented by mathematician John Nash in 1947 at Princeton University. In 1952, Parker Brothers marketed a version. They called their version Hex, and the name stuck. Hex has the simplest rules of almost any game: connect your color edges with a path of tokens of your color. There is also a "swap rule" which compensates for the inherent advantage of the first player.
There are a number of resources for Hex on the internet, including several real-time servers. If you want to play face-to-face, used Hex sets are occasionally available, and you can also make your own set. A Battlemat with 1" hexes can be cut into a 15x15 rhombus grid. Standard Go stones also work well for this board. It is also playable as a pencil-and-paper game, like the 3M Paper Game version.
Many tips and advice for beginner as well as intermediate players can be found at HexWiki. It also features some commented games, strategy guides, and links to many other resources on Hex!
Print this board as large as it will fit on legal-size (8.5"x14") paper, laminate, then get around 120 .75" red and blue bingo markers (60 of each color) for your very own 11x11 Hex board, all for under $10!
This file contains a printable 11x11 Hex board with rules included on the board. The board prints on two 8.5x11" pieces of paper which may be taped together, and is large enough to use with Go stones. The third page is an unsplit 11x17 version, if you happen to have a printer that can print that size. Most people will probably use just the first two pages. Contact me on BGG if you would like an SVG version to improve upon.
Based on the public domain file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hex_board_11x11.svg uploaded by user Tiltec.
Resize the board (it's a single Word object) to fit your paper. At work we have a printer that takes nice big Super B sheets. You can also do a search and replace to remove the digits, if you like.
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