Finance (game) in 1935, Parker Brothers purchased "Finance" from Knapp for $10,000. Parker Brothers changed "Finance" so it was less similar to "Monopoly" and published it under the Finance Game Company name in 1935. Parker Brothers made additional changes in 1936 and published it with the Parker Brothers name. During 1935, Parker Brothers was developing its own version of "Monopoly", "Fortune", in case its deal with Darrow and the patent fell through. Almost an exact copy of "Monopoly", "Fortune" had only 10,000 copies made due to the deal with Darrow working out and was only published to keep the trademark to the
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