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Havannah
   

Havannah is very similar to hex, it's also played on a hexagonal board, however the board is bigger and 6-sided, with sides typically beeing 10 cells wide.

The game starts on an empty board. Players move in turn to place one stone on an empty cell.

The game is won by the first player to complete a ring or a bridge or a fork. All of these are 'chains': closed connections of one color.

  • A ring is a chain around at least one cell (vacant or not doesn't matter)
  • A bridge is a chain linking two corners
  • A fork is a chain linking three sides. Corners do not belong to sides

"The inventor has, in the summer 2002 issue of Abstract Games, put a $1000 prize money on a program that can beat him one out of ten games within the next decade."



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