Hexxagon

Hexxagon, released in 1993 by Argo Games, is a classic strategy board game that became a staple of early 90s shareware. If you’ve ever played the arcade game Ataxx, this will feel very familiar—it's essentially the same game but played on a hexagonal grid instead of a square one.
It’s simple to learn but famously "infectious" once you start playing!
The objective is to have the most pieces of your color on the board by the time all the spaces are filled or your opponent is completely wiped out. You play as either the Ruby (Red) or Emerald (Green) gems.
The game relies on two types of movement that require very different strategies:
- The Clone (1 Space): If you move a piece to an adjacent (touching) hexagon, your original piece stays where it is, and a new piece appears in the target spot. This is how you grow your army.
- The Jump (2 Spaces): You can "jump" over an empty space to a hexagon further away. However, your piece leaves its original spot, meaning you don't gain a new piece—you just reposition.
This is the "Aha!" moment. When your piece lands (whether by cloning or jumping) next to any of your opponent's pieces, all adjacent enemy pieces instantly flip to your color. The shift from a square grid (Ataxx) to a hexagonal grid (Hexxagon) completely changed the strategy. In a hex grid, every space has six neighbors instead of four. This makes the game much more "fluid" and dangerous; a single clever move can cause a massive chain reaction, flipping half the board in one turn.

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