Easy Money (board game) rent value. Rather than the two card types in Parker Brothers' "Monopoly" (and early "Finance" sets) players draw "Give-or-Take" cards whenever they throw doubles on the dice, with similar rewards and penalties. Players start with $2,000 (rather than $1,500 as they do in "Monopoly"), and earn $250 (not $200) for completing a full circuit of the board. In the 1974 edition of the game, basic dollar amounts were multiplied by 10; consequently, these figures became $20,000 to start with and $2,500 for a full circuit, with commensurate increases in property values and rents. A game of "Easy Money" ends when
Hex (board game) 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. Hex-related research is current in the areas of topology, graph and matroid theory, combinatorics, game theory and computer heuristics. Hex is a connection game, and can be classified as a Maker-Breaker game, a particular type of positional game. The game can never end in a draw (tie), in other words, Hex is also a "determined game". Hex