elect.horse

(elect.horse)

165 points | by solarist 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • tejstead 1 hour ago
    I think this is basically a copy of Gerrymandle?
  • Agentlien 1 hour ago
    It's fun but I can barely see the difference between the horse and donkey colors which makes it really hard.
    • pge 24 minutes ago
      I am color blind (red-green) and have the same issue. Not a color-blind friendly color scheme...
    • llm_nerd 1 hour ago
      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 5 minutes ago
        bad llm
        • llm_nerd 1 minute ago
          Uh, what? What is the point of your worthless comment?
    • Tepix 40 minutes ago
      [flagged]
      • mixtureoftakes 25 minutes ago
        got me wondering how many complaints you see online are one shottable by any decent model with 30 seconds of "i have this issue: . provide easiest working solution" prompting
        • throw310822 4 minutes ago
          Yesterday I was watching a tv program online on the legitimate website of the broadcaster, but I was really annoyed at the fact that the video stopped whenever I left the tab. So I opened Chrome's devtools, went to the AI tab ad exposed my complaint. In a few seconds it had analysed all the minified sources of the website, found which tracker was responsible of this, and written a script to disable it. Lovely.
    • Razengan 1 hour ago
      That in itself might be a social commentary.. :)
      • Jtarii 1 hour ago
        Sure, if you have an IQ of 80.
        • fancyfredbot 1 hour ago
          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
            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 57 minutes ago
              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.

            • xienze 53 minutes ago
              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...

  • chinathrow 1 hour ago
  • anonymous908213 1 hour ago
    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.
    • asmosoinio 22 minutes ago
      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!

    • alembic_fumes 59 minutes ago
      > 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!

      • toyg 57 minutes ago
        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 55 minutes ago
          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.
      • manarth 57 minutes ago
        "Win the election for <color>" is Gerrymandle's standard text, and the color changes for each daily puzzle.
  • swiftcoder 1 hour ago
    That's a really concrete demonstration of gerrymandering. Assign it in schools!
  • ghrl 1 hour ago
    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.

  • teekert 38 minutes ago