Thanks for colorblind mode!

Saw your post on Reddit and the positive feedback. Unfortunately in a world of AI, it's trivially easy to copy a game concept.

Why didn't you sell back at the time?

FWIW, imitation is flattery -- enclose.horse is done, I left the daily game weeks ago after they started phoning in slop daily designs. This is a cheap move but it shouldn't make a difference to your audience.

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You could add "pretty shameless" before "copy" there. Sheesh.

What next? words.horse which is just Wordle?

You can get a feel of the state of the software industry through the replies to this comment. Specifically, the countless times people counter with "Oh, well everything is a copy of everything", citing some X that's just like Y. Except X is merely inspired by Y and in reality has far more original ideas that make it completely different. In this case this is a literal carbon copy, and people are automatically rushing to defend it. When the 'vibecoders copying indie games 1-for-1 and reselling them on Steam' debacle happened, these people probably wanted to congratulate the ripoff makers for their good business sense and brilliant use of AI.

It looks like it: https://gerrymandle.com/

Gerrymandle doesn't have horses

which is itself not a new concept

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

Seems like it, though this has a second puzzle with three candidates instead of two

Gerrymandle shows popup asking me to "Create profiles for personalised advertising" at 116 vendors, so I am completely fine with them being cloned.

Clone software they said, it will be good they said

With you always working make sure blue wins.

Minecraft is a copy of infiniminer

everything is a copy of everything else. So what? Execution matters

https://words.global

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the more such site the better it is.

Aren't they both ripoffs of the 2019 boardgame Mapmaker?

(Great Kickstarter, they played games of it on the steps of the supreme Court, and had pledge levels where you could have copies sent to your Congresspeople or the court)

Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1639370584/mapmaker-the...

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252997

It's the same developer...

To the other commenters: @jawns means a rip-off of gerrymandle.com

But even gerrymandle is a rip off of a NYT game that never left beta: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/politics/congres...

There's a enough of a branding and storyline difference for me to love elect.horse

It literally says “also by us: enclose.horse”

It's from the same people!

I think the clear association to enclose.horse makes it just another cute take rather than a rip off.

List of daily "dle" games: https://dles.aukspot.com - warning, it's big.

Mine is the nonogram daily puzzle at: https://lab174.com/nonodle/

one of my daily fun routines: - wordle - enclose.horse

Also “related”, but only vaguely:

https://xkcd.com/936/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w

:D

Anyone else got something horse adjacent?

Use this bookmarklet to rotate the hue by +20. You can use it multiple times in a row:

    javascript:(()=>{const e=document.documentElement;let n=parseFloat(e.dataset.hue||"0")+20;if(n>=360)n-=360;e.dataset.hue=n;e.style.filter=n?"hue-rotate("+n+"deg)":""})()

Sorry for the previous one, it was too long.

I don't have colour blindness, I have a colour calibrated display, and I find it hard to differentiate between them.

Also, Firefox blocking Canvas elements does something really funky to the hex tiles making it harder. Allowing access does make the tile background change to pink/yellow-green instead of them all being lilac/lavender/purple animations.

The colours make it too difficult for me on a good display, and the dancing 'thing' (wheat?) doesn't help.

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

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?

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That in itself might be a social commentary.. :)

Thank you on the behalf of my kids who are Worldle regulars and can now diversify :)

(would appreciate more geo games)

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!

The LLM text copy really grinds my gears. It's really not hard to write your own copy. Using LLM copy is disrespectful to your users and tells me you don't give a crap about the quality of what you're publishing.

> 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!

It doesn't represent the risk to gerrymandering at all. There are no error bars in voting patterns based on 4 year old data.

Part of the reason this next cycle is looking so bad for Republicans is _because_ of the gerrymandering they tried backfiring on them because they cut the lines too close to try and gain more seats.

Each district you draw is the only thing that counts for voting.

So, "gerrymandering" the districts to make it so the least popular "party" wins is the objective of the game. What's maybe not clear about the game is that each dot represents one animal and not say another mini district.

the numbers are just the number of hexes for each candidate, what you care about are the number of colored areas / colored squares. If you see 2 or more blue colored squares above the buttons, then the horse wins, which is what you want.

Look up gerrymandering. Also, there's a tutorial.