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> Hex is a two-player abstract strategy game invented independently by Piet Hein in 1942 and John Nash in 1948.

This sounded very intriguing - what are the chances of two people inventing the same abstract strategy game!? At the least there might be some interesting story about how they arrived at same idea.

Wikipedia phrases it differently though:

> Hex was invented by mathematician and poet Piet Hein in 1942 and later rediscovered and popularized by John Nash.

Ok less amazing

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Fixed! HexWiki has a full section on the controversy surrounding Nash's claim of rediscovering Hex independently https://www.hexwiki.net/index.php/History_of_Hex

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Sorry, thanks for pointing that out! Yes Nash rediscovered it. Will update once things calm down