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Hex (board game) Hex is a strategy board game for two players played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11×11 rhombus. Players alternate placing markers or stones (Go stones make ideal playing pieces) on unoccupied spaces in an attempt to link their opposite sides of the board in an unbroken chain. One player must win; there are no draws. The game has deep strategy, sharp tactics and a profound mathematical underpinning related to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. It was invented in the 1940s independently by two mathematicians, Piet Hein and John Nash. The game was first marketed as a board game in Denmark under the name Con-tac-tix, and Parker Brothers marketed a version of it in 1952 called Hex; they are no longer in production. Hex can also be played with paper and pencil on hexagonally ruled graph paper.
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Catan The Settlers of Catan, sometimes shortened to Catan or Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber and first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as Die Siedler von Catan. Players assume the roles of settlers, each attempting to build and develop holdings while trading and acquiring resources. Players are awarded points as their settlements grow; the first to reach a set number of points, typically 10, is the winner. The game and its many expansions are also published by Mayfair Games, Filosofia, Capcom, 999 Games, Κάισσα, and Devir.
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Thelma Bates Thelma Bates is a fictional character played by Jemima Rooper in Sky One's British horror dramedy series "Hex". She appeared in every episode of the programme. After the departure and subsequent replacement of the programme's lead character of Cassie Hughes (Christina Cole), Thelma became the "de facto" protagonist as she was the only character who continued the series' narrative.
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Ben Lukas Boysen Ben Lukas Boysen, also known by his stage name Hecq, is an electronic music composer based in Berlin.
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Hex (Discworld) Hex is a fictional computer featuring in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. First appearing in "Soul Music", Hex is an elaborate, magic-powered and self-building computer (not unlike the 'shamble', a kind of magical device used by the Witches of the Discworld) and is housed in the basement of the High Energy Magic Building at the Unseen University (UU) in the twin city of Ankh-Morpork.
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Pafman Pafman is a Spanish comic character created by cartoonist Joaquín Cera in 1987, protagonist of the series of the same name. The main characters of the strip are Pafman, a bungling superhero and his sidekick Pafcat, an anthropomorphic cat and inventor. Both of them cause many disasters while fighting supervillains.
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Hexdame Hexdame (or HexDame) is a strategy board game for two players invented by Christian Freeling in 1979. The game is a literal adaptation of the game international draughts (checkers or "Dame") to a hexagonal gameboard.
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Hexes Hexes is the plural of Hex.
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She Cat "For the unrelated DC Comics character, see She-Cat."
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Xavin Xavin is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics "Runaways". They are a Super-Skrull in training, created by author Brian K. Vaughan & artist Adrian Alphona, and debuted in "Runaways" vol. 2 #7. Although Alphona was the series' artist at the time, artist Takeshi Miyazawa first drew the character on print. Xavin had first appeared to the Runaways, taking on the form of a black male, but changed into a black female just for the sake of Karolina Dean, a lesbian whom they were to marry. Xavin is often seen as a male, simply to be "intimidating". Xavin, often called "Xav" for short, is known for their obtuse and warlike personality. They had originally found it hard to fit in with the Runaways due in part to their constant gender switching and unfamiliarity with Earth values and norms, though through proving their loyalty to the group, found acceptance. They are the child of the Skrull Prince De'zean.
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He-Man/ThunderCats He-Man/ThunderCats was a comic book crossover that was released between 2016-2017.
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Cat Paradise Cat Paradise (学園創世 猫天! , Gakuen Sōsei Nekoten! , lit. "Academy Genesis: Cat Heaven!") is a fantasy action manga written and illustrated by Yuji Iwahara. It was serialized in the monthly "shōnen" manga magazine "Champion Red" from June 2006 to December 2008. Chapters were collected by Akita Shoten in five "tankōbon" volumes. "Cat Paradise" is licensed in North America in English by Yen Press, with the first volume released in August 2009.
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Black Cat (manga) Black Cat (Japanese: ブラック・キャット , Hepburn: Burakku Kyatto ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki. It was originally serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine from July 2000 to June 2004, with the chapters collected into twenty "tankōbon" volumes by Shueisha. The story centers on a man named Train Heartnet who withdrew from an elite group of assassins called the Chronos Numbers to become a bounty hunter.
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Revanche Revanche (Kwannon) is a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men. She was created by writer Fabian Nicieza and first appeared in "" in February 1993.
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List of xxxHolic characters The fictional characters appearing in the manga and anime series "xxxHolic" were developed by Clamp, a group of four manga artists. The series takes place in modern Japan and focuses on various supernatural themes, with most of the main characters being humans with magical powers, supernatural creatures, or spirits. Published concurrently with Clamp's "" manga, the two manga's plotlines and character cross over.
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Trex (card game) Trex, pronounced Tricks or Trix, and also known as Ticks, is a four-player Middle Eastern card game mainly played in the Levant region (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel). Similar to the European game of Barbu, Trex takes on a cycle style in which there are four cycles with each cycle consisting of five games. Each cycle is called a "kingdom" in reference to the fact that in each cycle one player (the King) determines which contract to play in each of the five games.
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He Qiuxia He Qiuxia () is a Chinese "pipa" player.
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Hexshogi Hexshogi is a shogi variant for two players created by George R. Dekle, Sr. in 1986. The gameboard comprises 85 hexagonal cells. The game is in all respects the same as shogi, except that piece moves have been transfigured for the hexagonal board-cell geometry.
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Cyan (band) Cyan is a British progressive rock band original formed by Rob Reed in 1984, but which split up after a few performances and one demo tape. In 1991 Rob Reed (Magenta, Trippa) received a letter from a French fan who had received the original demo from Nick Barrett (of Pendragon and a fan of the band) and was amazed that there was still an interest in Cyan.
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Havannah Havannah is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Christian Freeling. It belongs to the family of games commonly called connection games; its relatives include Hex and TwixT. Havannah has "a sophisticated and varied strategy" and is best played on a base-10 hexagonal board, ten hex cells to a side.
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Hex (Doctor Who) Thomas Hector Schofield, nicknamed Hex, is a fictional character played by Philip Olivier in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". A staff nurse working for St. Gart's Hospital in London in the year 2021, he is a companion of the Seventh Doctor.
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Collective Man The Collective Man (Sun, Chang, Ho, Lin, and Han Tao-Yu) is a fictional character, a Chinese superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Collective Man is actually an identity shared by the Tao-Yu brothers, a set of quintuplets. They possess the mutant power to merge into one body, which variously possesses the collective abilities of all five men or all the people of China. The brothers also share a psychic/spiritual link that allows them to telepathically communicate and teleport to one another.