FINALLY Mastering Hex in Clubhouse Games!

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Moves in this Game:
1) F6-G6
2) G7-F7
3) I3-H4
4) H3-G4
5) G3-E4
6) F4-E5
7) E3-F3
8) G1-F2
9) F1-E2
10) E1-C2
11) D2-C3
12) C9-F5
13) D10-E9
14) E10-F9
15) F10-H9
16) G9-F11
17) H8-I8
18) H7-K6
19) J7-D9
20) C10-K7
21) J6-K5
22) J4-J5
23) I5-I6
24) H6-B9
25) B10-K4
26) A10-K3
27) J2-J8
28) H7-E11
29) J3-D11
30) K2 (WIN)

This game was introduced as a board game from Parker Brothers (now acquired by Hasbro) in 1943. It immediately took off and become a cult phenomenon with mathematicians. It has been proven to always produce a winning continuation for the first player, though it's easy to lose momentum and the game.

The goal is to form a contiguous path from one side of the rhombus-shaped grid to the other of your color while preventing your opponent from doing the same. You generally want to place your pieces such that a bridge can be formed using one of two adjacent cells. If your opponent starts doing this, it can be hard to stop because if you block one cell, he can just play the other.

I would say good luck to you if you plan to "master" this game to get the final medal, but this is a perfect information game. This means that like Chess, Shogi, and a few others in this compilation, you and your opponents both know each others moves at all times (no luck). As Cranky Kong would say, "git gud". And for the love of all things holy, go first (pick blue). It's the only way you have a winning progression if you both play perfectly.

[goldblood]

You can’t possibly think I’d believe the bot would make the move at 2:27

[PekoPekoTVJapan]

The trick is to keep undoing until the bot makes a dumb move.

[krümelbert_gandelcookie]

My way to go was using an online ai and just entering as my move whatever the ingame ai did. Took me 3 different tries even with that…

[pikulis]

In case some of you got into it, I recommend picking up one of the few Hex strategy textbooks, e.g. "Hex: A Strategy Guide" by Matthew Seymour, which is available for free online. If you get bored with AI, Hex is played on a pretty high level on Little Golem, igGameCenter and a few other places.

[kieranoconnell]

Love this game. Its way more than meets the eye

[Ggamergoodson]

I've mastered 25 of the games so far. Hex has been by far the hardest to master. By head just can't wrap around it I guess. When I got to Impossible difficulty I had to look up a guide of some sort. I found none so waited a couple days and found this video. Thank you so much! I attempted to mimic and gimmick the computer to play your exact game and it didn't work. Worked for the first 10 or so moves then I had to think for myself. The strategy from what I'm getting against high level AI or players is to give yourself multiple openings towards the front and end of the goal lines. I ended up beating it idk how but thanks so much!

[GoIdheart]

Until an article appears with "HOW TO WIN" in bold letters explaining this supposedly basic game without high-complex math formluas explaining why you win, every article that claims a win is a clickbait article.

[Vraier]

At 3:18 put stone on K3 (then H3/G3 and A10/A11 according to opponent) and win

[turbofoams]

I absolutely hate this game because of this bot

[teamramby]

How the hell did you get the bot to place it in F11 after you place G9? No amount of resetting is working and the bot insists on only placing it in H8 which runs the whole thing.

[davidwang]

I win at my third try, and I have no idea how I won lol