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.
Aren't they both ripoffs of the 2019 boardgame Mapmaker?
(Great Kickstarter, they played games of it on the steps of the supreme Court, and had pledge levels where you could have copies sent to your Congresspeople or the court)
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1639370584/mapmaker-the...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252997
Not really, they're not ripoffs. Maybe loosely inspired, but besides the hexes and the theme, they look to be mechanically different. The board game is a competitive versus game, not a set of puzzles; it has varying numbers of voters per hex; the game board is of a preset shape and not freeform.
The game in the post is basically identical to Gerrymandle, they're far more similar to one another than either game is to what you've posted.
On the steps of SCOTUS, not Congress, curiously....
It's the same developer...
What’s your source on that? The owners of Enclose.horse don’t list gerrymandle as one of their games: https://clevergoat.com/all-games
He means that enclose.horse and elect.horse are from the same developers.
(which isn't true btw, enclose.horse was sold by the original developer)
I mean to say that it's owned by the same people
Shivers (the original developer) sold it to them.
That's what they are saying. That the enclose.horse people ripping off gerrymandle makes them like enclose.horse less.
To the other commenters: @jawns means a rip-off of gerrymandle.com
But even gerrymandle is a rip off of a NYT game that never left beta: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/politics/congres...
There's a enough of a branding and storyline difference for me to love elect.horse
It literally says “also by us: enclose.horse”
lol we know it's by the same people as enclose horse, the issue is that it rips off gerrymandle
It's from the same people!
I think the clear association to enclose.horse makes it just another cute take rather than a rip off.