- What did you notice from playing this game? For example, did you find it easy or difficult? What surprised you? What challenged you? What strategies did you figure out along the way? Were you able to gerrymander your party to power?
- If you successfully gerrymandered your way to power, you saw the message, “Good for your party, not so good for democracy.” What do the writers mean by that?
- What does it mean to make a district “compact”? Why is making compact districts important?
- What are “cracking” and “packing”? Did you employ either of these strategies in your mapmaking? How do they work to consolidate one party’s power?
- How is the newly enacted Texas mapLinks to an external site. an example of partisan gerrymandering?
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forbids “dilution” of the votes of people of color. How did you see this law at work in the game? Why do you think Congress made this kind of racial gerrymandering illegal?
- What did you learn about redistricting and gerrymandering from playing the game?