realmofthemad

I didn't build it to sell it, and I enjoy making the puzzles

Hello, I am the developer of gerrymandle.com.

A few months ago I received an email from the current owner of enclose horse, inquiring if I was willing to sell gerrymandle. I was not interested.

Enclose horse was a big inspiration for me, since it's such an elegant game. So I'm very sad to see that they have decided to copy my game.

I know that Gerrymandle is not a completely unique game, I was personally inspired by an old NYT article. But I like to think I at least gave my own spin on the genre.

I guess this is just the world now, but I am very disappointed

> But actually they did worse since they needed a hint or 4.

Hmm, that is interesting, I had not thought about that. I will see if it makes more sense to reverse the axis. Might just make it more confusing though

> How do you curate the puzzle each day? Can you easily automate a bunch of puzzles then hand select them so back to back days aren't too similar? Or is it manual?

It's mostly manual, but I have some tools to quickly create map layouts and fill them with various distributions. Just to speed up testing out new levels.

That helps a lot, thank you! A district is a connected group of hexes. With the other districts you have drawn, there is no way to create a connected group of hexes containing all remaining colored ones

Districts are connected regions that can contain at most 4 houses. If you click on a house that is too far away from your started district, it might not be possible to span the distance. In that case it creates a new region instead

Sorry this isn't super clear. I'll try to think of a way to make it more intuitive.

If a tile can be added to your district, it is added. Otherwise it makes a new district.

Since todays puzzle heavily relies on empty space, it can be a bit confusing. I'll try to make this a bit more clear for new players

Personally I've been very surprised with the public support for the increase in political gerrymandering. I know that people think it is worth it for the short term gains, but it still seems like a bad idea to me.

Yes indeed, not super realistic, since it would never happen. but it does make for a more fun puzzle :)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, would you mind sending over a screenshot or video of where you are stuck?

I'm sorry you've found it a bit difficult to pick up! There is an introduction below the game, but it can still be a bit hard to follow since it's all text. I'll see about adding an additional, optional, interactive tutorial.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Am I missing out? I feel like I can definitely tell the difference in quality between Claude Opus and other smaller models. The smaller models are much more likely to make mistakes or to get stuck on random stuff

Maybe I just haven't been trying the right models?

Another day, another round of meta layoffs...

It's very hard to tell how much is actually fake though. Are there any good statistics on this?