elect.horse turns gerrymandering into a daily puzzle where the horse must win
A browser puzzle game where you draw districts on a hex map to keep a horse in power despite losing the popular vote. Every district holds the same number of voters, and the most voters take the seat. Pack rivals into a few blowout districts and crack the rest so they fall just short. Daily, Expert, and Unlimited modes, plus hints and streaks.
The horse is up for re-election and set to lose. You draw the districts, so draw them so the horse wins the most seats anyway. That's gerrymandering, and it's the whole game.
- trizoza
Awesome! Adding to my collection at dles.gg
- glenstein
Fun! One less than intuitive piece is that, as far as the game is concerned, evenly dividing a district 50-50 stops that district from counting toward anyone's majority.
So if Blue was only present in a single district where its the majority, you could have ten more districts all evenly tied between Purple and Orange, and Blue would still win.
- tejstead
I think this is basically a copy of Gerrymandle?
- chinathrow
Related: https://enclose.horse/
- barbazoo
https://elect.horse/tutorial is a better starting point
- Agentlien
It's fun but I can barely see the difference between the horse and donkey colors which makes it really hard.
- vavooom
I love daily games. https://maptap.gg/ is my personal favorite! I love the author's little notes and asides as he discusses fun facts from around the world.
- jawns
I am a big fan of both enclose.horse and gerrymandle.com. I play both daily.
But this rip-off of gerrymandle.com makes me feel less inclined to continue playing enclose.horse.
And yes, it is a rip-off, not merely a riff on the general puzzle game of this type.
It's akin to joke stealing among comedians. It makes you lose respect for the joke stealer, even if their original stuff is good.