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186 points solarist 3 hours ago 38 comments

chinathrow 1 hour ago | parent

beyti 1 hour 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 56 minutes ago | parent

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

QuantumNomad_ 41 minutes 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 34 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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

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 8 minutes ago | parent

Ah. First time I've seen either.

curtisf 25 minutes ago | parent

which is itself not a new concept

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

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 8 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...

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 17 minutes ago | parent

bad llm

llm_nerd 13 minutes ago | parent

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

pge 35 minutes ago | parent

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

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 34 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 50 minutes ago | parent

It'S a TwO pArTy SyStEm!

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