Elea

Elea is a simple unification game of pure placement invented by Michael Amundsen in May 2022. There cannot be a tie in Elea.

Rules:
Players take turns placing a stone of their own color on any empty cell of a hexagonal grid of hexagons (a hexhex board).
The game is over when the board is full, and the player with the lower score wins.
Your score is 1 point per odd-sized group and 2 points per even-sized group.

The name is taken from the birthplace of the great ancient monist Parmenides, who argued that plurality is contradictory.

—description from the designer