Ballot Blocks

About Ballot Blocks

Ballot Blocks is a daily guessing game about American places and politics. Each day you get one location in Google Street View: houses, cars, shops, signs. Your job is to read the neighbourhood and guess how it voted in the 2024 presidential election between Harris and Trump.

You set a slider to a winner and a margin, such as Trump +15 or Harris +30, and submit. You win with the right winner and a margin within 5 points of the real result. You have seven attempts, and each wrong guess reveals a hint, narrowing the location from census region and subregion to state and county. At the end the game names the place and shows how it voted, with a share line for your result.

After the daily, Canvas Mode offers ten random locations to play at any time. It suits players of GeoGuessr-style games who enjoy reading clues from a street, and anyone interested in US election maps.

How to play Ballot Blocks

1. Open ballotblocks.com and look around the Street View.
2. Set the slider to the winner and margin you expect.
3. Submit your guess; you win within 5 points of the real margin.
4. After a miss, read the new hint about the location.
5. Get it within seven attempts, then share your result.

Tips

• Density is a strong signal: dense city blocks and suburban cul-de-sacs vote very differently.
• Look at yard signs, flags, trucks and business names for local cues.
• Use each hint to adjust the margin, not only the winner: a state hint often moves your estimate by many points.

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