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224 points solarist 4 hours ago 62 comments

chinathrow 2 hours ago | parent

beyti 2 hours ago | parent

one of my daily fun routines: - wordle - enclose.horse

tialaramex 1 hour ago | parent

I already play Blueprintle (as Wordle is to the dictionary, so Blueprintle is to the Blue Prince room directory) Wordle and Connections but maybe I will pick up one of the horse games when I grow bored of one of them

Tepix 1 hour ago | parent

Recommendation: add the two daily puzzles of Sunflowersgame: https://sunflowersgame.com/

QuantumNomad_ 1 hour ago | parent

Also “related”, but only vaguely:

https://xkcd.com/936/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w

Anyone else got something horse adjacent?

merelysounds 59 minutes ago | parent

List of daily "dle" games: https://dles.aukspot.com - warning, it's big.

Mine is the nonogram daily puzzle at: https://lab174.com/nonodle/

ghrl 2 hours ago | parent

Meant to post this, too.

Another great game from the enclose.horse game, both are very fun and really challenging to play depending on the level.

tejstead 2 hours ago | parent

I think this is basically a copy of Gerrymandle?

Symbiote 1 hour ago | parent

It looks like it: https://gerrymandle.com/

elxr 1 hour ago | parent

This one doesn't load for me

echelon 25 minutes ago | parent

The horse version feels more fun and cozy.

duskdozer 1 hour ago | parent

Seems like it, though this has a second puzzle with three candidates instead of two

manarth 1 hour ago | parent

Gerrymandle interchanges the number of candidates: sometimes two, sometimes three, sometimes more

duskdozer 33 minutes ago | parent

Ah. First time I've seen either.

curtisf 51 minutes ago | parent

which is itself not a new concept

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/teaching-players-to-rig... (2018)

MattRix 4 minutes ago | parent

Yes but surely you can see that this is copying much more than just the general idea of a game about gerrymandering.

zimpenfish 6 minutes ago | parent

You could add "pretty shameless" before "copy" there. Sheesh.

What next? words.horse which is just Wordle?

paulnpace 6 minutes ago | parent

With you always working make sure blue wins.

tarpitt 2 minutes ago | parent

Gerrymandle doesn't have horses

Agentlien 1 hour ago | parent

It's fun but I can barely see the difference between the horse and donkey colors which makes it really hard.

Razengan 1 hour ago | parent

That in itself might be a social commentary.. :)

Jtarii 1 hour ago | parent

Sure, if you have an IQ of 80.

fancyfredbot 1 hour ago | parent

For people with IQ over 80, highlighting that people in different tribes are actually alike doesn't count as social commentary?

Jtarii 1 hour ago | parent

The only people who think republicans and democrats are exactly the same have an IQ of 80.

The "both sides" meme was funny when jon stewart was doing it in 2008. It has run its course.

fancyfredbot 1 hour ago | parent

I took it as a comment about voters than parties.

It didn't even occur to me that it was saying republicans and democrats are the same. That's just ridiculous ;-)

Edit: To clarify there's good evidence that people overestimate the degree to which people on the other side of the political divide hold extreme views by about a factor of two. We genuinely are less different than we think. It's not necessary for people to be the same for this to be true.

paulryanrogers 33 minutes ago | parent

> To clarify there's good evidence that people overestimate the degree to which people on the other side of the political divide hold extreme views by about a factor of two.

Where can I read more about that evidence?

Because ~70 million of my countrymen have voted for a convicted rapist.

xienze 1 hour ago | parent

Surely you agree that "both sides" think the other side is full of evil politicians that want to destroy the country AND their voters are complete morons?

And surely you can agree that each side has key issues they feel very strongly about (abortion on the left, guns on the right) and again, think the other side's view on said issues are utterly disgusting, right?

And SURELY you can agree that gerrymandering has occurred at various times in the past, from both sides, can't you? For example, take a look at the map of Illinois congressional districts[0]. Perfectly sensible districts here, yessir!

The low IQ take is pretending there aren't places where both sides do in fact behave the same way.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_congressional_dis...

tialaramex 18 minutes ago | parent

What you'd expect to see in a healthy democracy is people who want to fix the bug, and for a while maybe those who most benefit from the bug fight to keep it but eventually there's a broad public sentiment in favour of fixing the bug and so it simply becomes uncontroversial to fix it. Say fifty years. Give it an extra generation if e.g. civil war breaks out interrupting such considerations.

But Gerry died in the nineteenth century. This practice is almost as old as the United States of America itself. I would say it's as bad as if the US still had slavery, or still had capital punishment, but oh yeah it still has both of those too. Do better.

llm_nerd 1 hour ago | parent

FWIW, they are pretty distinct hues, and are easily discernible. I only mention this because a lot of people go through life not realizing they suffer some form of colour blindness, so it's worth knowing. Another possibility is that you're looking at it on a very poor display.

EDIT: I've now been "downvoted" multiple times for this harmless observation, and now have a clown declaring me a "bad llm". Is this what HN is reduced to?

Muromec 42 minutes ago | parent

bad llm

llm_nerd 38 minutes ago | parent

Uh, what? What is the point of your worthless comment?

ThrowawayTestr 26 minutes ago | parent

You are correct. If you can't tell the difference between purple and cyan you probably have color blindness.

Agentlien 21 minutes ago | parent

I know I've got deuteranopia. That doesn't help. I still can barely see the difference. What would have helped is picking two colors which weren't so close for people with such a common issue.

What frustrates me is that this has happened even with color coding in video games where I myself was part of the UI team and flagged the issue a year before release. (Need For Speed, 2015)

llm_nerd 11 minutes ago | parent

> I know I've got deuteranopia. That doesn't help.

Seems like something you should probably declare upfront if you're complaining about the colour choices, right? As is your comment looks weird to the vast majority of people -- and yes, the vast majority of people are not colour blind -- who have no issues with the colours.

Should every colour-based game, chart, display, and so on have colour blind modes or safer colour selections? Sure.

pge 1 hour ago | parent

I am color blind (red-green) and have the same issue. Not a color-blind friendly color scheme...

antonyh 15 minutes ago | parent

I don't have colour blindness, I have a colour calibrated display, and I find it hard to differentiate between them.

Also, Firefox blocking Canvas elements does something really funky to the hex tiles making it harder. Allowing access does make the tile background change to pink/yellow-green instead of them all being lilac/lavender/purple animations.

The colours make it too difficult for me on a good display, and the dancing 'thing' (wheat?) doesn't help.

swiftcoder 1 hour ago | parent

That's a really concrete demonstration of gerrymandering. Assign it in schools!

anonymous908213 1 hour ago | parent

enclose.horse was sold off not too long after it was published. The new owners now seem to be doing a shameless cash grab, ripping off gerrymandle.com 1:1, down to some particularly weird UI choices, and the text copy is transparently LLM-generated. It would be one thing if they added some kind of improvement or unique take, but reskinning (with assets you bought) and throwing ads on it is, frankly, just lame.

alembic_fumes 1 hour ago | parent

> ripping off gerrymandle.com

I'm used to game developers sometimes displaying their political preferences through their art, but I have to say that Gerrymandle's "Win the election for orange." is still quite on the nose!

manarth 1 hour ago | parent

"Win the election for <color>" is Gerrymandle's standard text, and the color changes for each daily puzzle.

toyg 1 hour ago | parent

For the record, it's just the current puzzle - the colors vary pretty wildly, see for example the previous one: https://gerrymandle.com/game/2026-10-29

anonymous908213 1 hour ago | parent

There's also a colorblind mode where you can always win the election for blue, if that's more to your political preference! I like that mode just for keeping the colors consistent.

asmosoinio 59 minutes ago | parent

To whom was it sold? Any reference for that?

I still thought it was some single persons product.

Update; ah ok sold to two people, not some huge company - https://enclose.horse/about-us:

---- Our Story

Enclose.horse was originally created by Shivers as an interesting optimization problem, the kind of thing you'd find in a Leetcode challenge or an Advent of Code puzzle. But after prototyping it, it turned out to be genuinely fun to play, and it grew into a fully-fledged game.

Today, enclose.horse is developed and maintained by Ryan and Praveen. We're constantly adding new features, puzzle mechanics, and quality-of-life improvements based on community feedback. If you have ideas, we'd love to hear them!

teekert 1 hour ago | parent

It'S a TwO pArTy SyStEm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7l9QmtiXHU

joshuaS98 28 minutes ago | parent

day 8 expert took me about 40 seconds

jawns 21 minutes ago | parent

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.

joshuaS98 19 minutes ago | parent

It's the same developer...

alstonite 12 minutes ago | parent

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

efilife 7 minutes ago | parent

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)

joshuaS98 6 minutes ago | parent

I mean to say that it's owned by the same people

yohannparis 18 minutes ago | parent

It's from the same people!

jwilcoxson 13 minutes ago | parent

It literally says “also by us: enclose.horse”

MattRix 3 minutes ago | parent

lol we know it's by the same people as enclose horse, the issue is that it rips off gerrymandle

Labo333 12 minutes ago | parent

To the other commenters: @jawns means a rip-off of gerrymandle.com

petterroea 11 minutes ago | parent

Big fan of enclose.horse. Happy there is a sequel

ivanjermakov 5 minutes ago | parent

Competitve side is much weaker than in enclose.horse, this game only measures hints used.