Gerrymandle — Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts. It was shared on Show HN in 2026 and received 244 upvotes on Hacker News. Gerrymandle is a free daily gerrymandering puzzle. Draw the district lines to win more seats than your opponents, with a new puzzle every day. Daily gerrymandering puzzle - Gerrymandle How to play Gerrymandle You are in charge of drawing the district lines for the elections. Not every tile on the board has one, some are just empty land. It is your job to draw regions so that your party wins more regions than anyone else and wins the election. Submit your answer when you think you have found the best distribution for your party . There is also a hint button available if you get stuck. Gerrymandering is drawing electoral district lines to favor one party over another. It is built from just two moves: packing and cracking. Packing and cracking: how gerrymandering turns a minority of votes into a majority of seats. The practice is older: Patrick Henry tried to draw Virginia's first congressional map to keep James Madison out of Congress. Today the mechanics are unchanged, but algorithms model thousands of map variants and tune each district with surgical precision. The primary winner takes the seat, so incumbents only need to keep their party's base happy. Republicans redrew it, and in 2024 won 10 of 14 seats in a state that is closely divided. Residential patterns make packing or cracking a minority neighborhood one of the most efficient ways to tip a district. That ruling has accelerated an already aggressive cycle. More than 25% of all congressional seats have been redrawn mid-decade since 2020, something that used to happen only after a census, once per decade.