Projex (1994)

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Playtime: 20
Min. Age: 0
Number of Players:
2
ag.gameitem.publisher:
(Web published)
Designers:
Lloyd S. Shapley,
Bill Taylor
Artists:
Unknown
Mechanics:
Pattern Building
Beschreibung
Projex (Projective Hex) is a Hex-like abstract strategy game: two players take turns to occupy hexagonal cells, competing to build a chain of occupied cells across the board.
For Projex, the hex grid wraps around at the edges to form a projective plane. Six pentagons (or three squares) must be included among the hexagons for the whole plane to be tiled.
A winning chain is any loop which encircles the projective plane, in the sense that it is not topologically equivalent to a trivial loop. As with Hex and Y, the game has the mathematically appealing property that when the board is full, exactly one player will have a winning chain.
References
Designer's post to sci.math describing the game
Description at gamerz.net
Projex (Projective Hex) is a Hex-like abstract strategy game: two players take turns to occupy hexagonal cells, competing to build a chain of occupied cells across the board.
For Projex, the hex grid wraps around at the edges to form a projective plane. Six pentagons (or three squares) must be included among the hexagons for the whole plane to be tiled.
A winning chain is any loop which encircles the projective plane, in the sense that it is not topologically equivalent to a trivial loop. As with Hex and Y, the game has the mathematically appealing property that when the board is full, exactly one player will have a winning chain.
References
Designer's post to sci.math describing the game
Description at gamerz.net
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