What is elect.horse?
elect.horse is a daily puzzle game about gerrymandering. The board is a map of hexes, each holding one voter coloured by party: the horse, which is in power, and its challengers, the cow, the donkey and the goat. The horse is losing the popular vote, and your job is to split the map into equal districts so that it still wins as many seats as possible.
Whoever has the most voters in a district takes its seat, and a tie gives the seat to nobody, so the trick is the same one real map drawers use: pack your opponents into a few districts and crack the rest so they lose everywhere else. It comes from the makers of enclose.horse, needs no sign-up, and reached the front page of Hacker News with more than 550 points.
Main Features
- A new daily puzzle, with a Normal and a tougher Expert map for the same day
- Unlimited mode that deals fresh puzzles from Beginner to Insane whenever you want
- A four-board tutorial that teaches drawing districts, counting votes, packing and cracking
- Hints that draw one district of a winning map for you, counted in your result
- An archive of past dailies with your results, plus streaks
- Community levels: play puzzles other players made, or build and share your own
- Optional sync with a code so your results follow you to another device
How to Get Started with elect.horse
- Open elect.horse in any browser; there is nothing to install and no account.
- Play the short tutorial to learn packing and cracking.
- Drag across the hexes to draw equal districts until every voter is in one.
- Check the seat count, try the Expert map, and share your result.
elect.horse Pricing
elect.horse is free to play, with no sign-up. The daily puzzles, Unlimited mode, the archive and community levels are all free, and there is no paid plan.
Who Should Use It?
- Daily puzzle fans who already play Wordle or Murdle
- Teachers who want a hands-on way to show how gerrymandering works
- Anyone curious about how district lines can flip an election result
- Players who like making their own levels to stump friends
elect.horse Alternatives
- Murdle: a free daily logic puzzle where you use clues and a grid to solve a murder.
- Puzzmo: a daily puzzle site with crosswords, word games and logic puzzles.
- Connections: the New York Times daily game of sorting 16 words into four hidden groups.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is elect.horse free?
Yes. elect.horse is completely free and needs no sign-up. The daily puzzles, Unlimited mode, past puzzles and community levels cost nothing.
How do you win at elect.horse?
Draw equal districts so the horse wins the most seats even though it has fewer votes overall. A district goes to whoever has the most voters in it, so you pack rival voters into a few districts and spread the horse's voters to win narrowly everywhere else.
Is there a new elect.horse puzzle every day?
Yes. Each day has a Normal and an Expert map, and Unlimited mode deals extra puzzles any time if you want more.