Assembly

Print out a board (plate 1), a box and its clip (plate 3) and a set of stones (plate 2 or 4).
The clip fits into the hole provided on the box. The game board slides onto the box and is held in place by the clip.

The proposed profile provides the colours, shapes and printing conditions from the outset.

The Game

The game of Hex, played on an 11x11 board, is an abstract strategy game for two players using white and black counters. The aim of the game is to connect two opposite sides of the same colour using an unbroken chain of your own counters.

Setup

The Hex board is an 11×11 rhombus made up of 121 adjacent hexagonal cells.
Each pair of opposite sides is assigned to one player: one to White, the other to Black.
Players use black and white pieces, each having enough for the whole game.

How to Play

Players take turns placing one of their stones on any empty cell.
A stone, once placed, cannot be moved or removed.
By convention, White goes first. A common variant is the “swap rule”: after the first move, the second player can choose to swap colors to balance first-turn advantage.
Turns alternate until a player achieves the goal.

Object of the Game

Each player’s aim is to form an unbroken chain of their own stones, connecting their two assigned sides.
White must connect the two white borders with white stones; Black does the same with the two black borders.
The first player to complete such a connection immediately wins.

Draws

Draws are impossible in Hex; there is always one winner

Notes

A theoretical winning strategy exists for the first player, but the solution is not known for large boards such as 11×11. The game is highly strategic, despite simple rules.

The possibility of a draw is mathematically excluded: every fully-filled Hex board has exactly one winner.

Hex Game Board and Box

No CFS Needed