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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

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Not really, they're not ripoffs. Maybe loosely inspired, but besides the hexes and the theme, they look to be mechanically different. The board game is a competitive versus game, not a set of puzzles; it has varying numbers of voters per hex; the game board is of a preset shape and not freeform.

The game in the post is basically identical to Gerrymandle, they're far more similar to one another than either game is to what you've posted.

On the steps of SCOTUS, not Congress, curiously....

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