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Title:
Votes for Women
Description:
It is July 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY. The reading of “A Declaration of Sentiments” has just lit the spark in the fight for Women’s Suffrage. For more than 70 years, this fight would touch every corner of the US, and expose the power and pitfalls of social movement. Its goal? Ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, and secure , for women, the most fundamental right to vote!
Votes for Women plays out this exciting chapter of American history as a card-driven game covering the American women’s suffrage movement from 1848-1920, culminating with the ratification (or rejection) of the Nineteenth Amendment. The game provides competitive, co-operative and solitaire play, with co-operative and solitaire play against the ”Oppobot.” The Suffragists organize rallies, earn support, lobby Congress and campaign across 48 states. Victory won’t be easy - the Opposition will leverage the power of the patriarchy to maintain the status quo.
To win, the Suffragist player must have Congress pass the proposed Amendment and then have three-fourths of the states (36 of the then 48 states) ratify the Amendment. The Opposition player wins by either preventing Congress from passing the proposed Amendment or by having 13 states reject the Amendment.
The game lasts for six turns - a turn consisting of drawing cards from the players’ own decks, bidding on strategy cards, and then six rounds of card play where a player may play a card for an event or discard a card to campaign, organize or lobby Congress. If Congress has proposed the Amendment but neither 36 states have ratified nor 13 states have rejected, then the game goes to Final Voting.
From the Kickstarter Campaign:
It’s 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY and America’s first women’s rights convention is meeting to declare “all men and women are created equal”. The most controversial element of the Declaration of Sentiments is “the right of equal franchise”. Attendees can’t possibly predict the 70 year road ahead: the masterful organizers or the eloquent speakers who will emerge, the continent-enveloping wars nor the inter-movement fights that might sink the whole effort, not even the pandemics and parades that lay ahead in the great battle for Votes for Women. Now, put yourself in their bloomers to decide the strategies and tactics needed to ratify the 19th Amendment and ensure Votes for Women is enshrined in the Constitution.
In Votes for Women, you are invited to join the movement for women’s suffrage, starting in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention and navigating the ups and downs of the next seventy years. Will you succeed in this card-driven game by winning support in three-fourths of the states needed for ratification? Or will the opposition stymie progress and prevent enough states from ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment, dashing our hopes for equality? Play this 60 minute game to determine who will out-campaign and out-organize their competition to win.
Votes for Women, designed by Tory Brown, can be played competitively, cooperatively, or in solitaire mode. Players may play cards for their events, to campaign, to organize or to call for a vote in state legislatures to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Game play occurs over three eras that correspond to important historical periods of the movement up to the exciting culmination of ratification in 1919 and 1920. The Support player needs 36 states to pass ratification to win while the Opposition player needs only 13 states to bury the 19th amendment.
The gorgeous cards feature some of the famous leaders we already know, plus many suffragists who have been left out of the narrative but whose contributions were critical to the passage of the 19th amendment, as well as the events, publications and clubs that were instrumental to winning not just suffrage but to advancing the women’s rights movement overall. The opposition cards highlight the events, forces, industries and individuals, many of them women, who nearly thwarted the greatest expansion of citizenship in American history.
COMPONENTS:
Cardboard/paper:
1 Map board (56x43.5cm)
18 Campaign Buttons:
3x “VOTES FOR WOMEN” star pattern
3x “It’s a Man’s World Unless Women Vote”
3x National American Woman Suffrage Association 1848
3x “VOTES FOR WOMEN” multicolor pattern
3x “ANTI SUFFRAGE”
3x “VOTE NO ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE”
14 Replica Historical Documents:
Equal Franchise Society 1910 reprint of Abigail Adams’ 1776 Letter
The Anti-Slavery Bugle article: Sojourner Truth, 1851
Indictment for Illegal Voting, 1873
Votos Para La Mujer, 1911
Specimen Ballot: Women’s Suffrage Ballot, 1912
NWSA Lettergram, 1913
A. L. Wright Letter to the Department of Immigration, 1913
Standard Guano Company Letter, 1913
New Southern Citizen cover, 1914
Postcard: “We have sent you many hundreds like this”, 1916
American Constitutional League Letter, 1918
H. J. Res. 1, 1919
The New York Times composite article, 1920
McMinn County Voter Registration Card, 1920.
170 cards (63x89mm):
52 Suffragist Event cards (purple)
52 Opposition Event cards (red)
42 Oppobot Event cards (gray; solo/cooperative modes)
12 Strategy cards (yellow)
12 State cards (green; 2 for each region of the map)
Plastic:
21 acrylic Dice:
4 red d6 Dice, with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
1 gray d6 Die with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Solo/Co-op)
1 black d6 Die with numerals 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6 (Solo/Co-op)
4 white d8 Dice with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
1 gray d8 Die with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Solo/Co-op)
1 black d8 Die with numerals 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Solo/Co-op)
6 light blue d12 Dice with numerals 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4
1 black d12 Die with numerals 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 (Solo/Co-op)
Wood:
250 custom wooden pieces:
18 Campaigners: 3x each standard purple Suffragist, yellow Suffragist, red Opposition; 3x each alternate design purple Suffragist, yellow Suffragist, red Opposition (only 2 Campaigners of each color are used during the game)
200 wooden 8mm cubes (65 purple, 65 yellow, 60 red)
37 green Check marks
15 red “X” marks
8 white Congressional markers (sculpted cylinders)
2 black Turn markers (disks)
Rulebook (12 p.).
Historical Supplement & Designer’s Notes (8 p. ).
Votes for Women plays out this exciting chapter of American history as a card-driven game covering the American women’s suffrage movement from 1848-1920, culminating with the ratification (or rejection) of the Nineteenth Amendment. The game provides competitive, co-operative and solitaire play, with co-operative and solitaire play against the ”Oppobot.” The Suffragists organize rallies, earn support, lobby Congress and campaign across 48 states. Victory won’t be easy - the Opposition will leverage the power of the patriarchy to maintain the status quo.
To win, the Suffragist player must have Congress pass the proposed Amendment and then have three-fourths of the states (36 of the then 48 states) ratify the Amendment. The Opposition player wins by either preventing Congress from passing the proposed Amendment or by having 13 states reject the Amendment.
The game lasts for six turns - a turn consisting of drawing cards from the players’ own decks, bidding on strategy cards, and then six rounds of card play where a player may play a card for an event or discard a card to campaign, organize or lobby Congress. If Congress has proposed the Amendment but neither 36 states have ratified nor 13 states have rejected, then the game goes to Final Voting.
From the Kickstarter Campaign:
It’s 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY and America’s first women’s rights convention is meeting to declare “all men and women are created equal”. The most controversial element of the Declaration of Sentiments is “the right of equal franchise”. Attendees can’t possibly predict the 70 year road ahead: the masterful organizers or the eloquent speakers who will emerge, the continent-enveloping wars nor the inter-movement fights that might sink the whole effort, not even the pandemics and parades that lay ahead in the great battle for Votes for Women. Now, put yourself in their bloomers to decide the strategies and tactics needed to ratify the 19th Amendment and ensure Votes for Women is enshrined in the Constitution.
In Votes for Women, you are invited to join the movement for women’s suffrage, starting in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention and navigating the ups and downs of the next seventy years. Will you succeed in this card-driven game by winning support in three-fourths of the states needed for ratification? Or will the opposition stymie progress and prevent enough states from ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment, dashing our hopes for equality? Play this 60 minute game to determine who will out-campaign and out-organize their competition to win.
Votes for Women, designed by Tory Brown, can be played competitively, cooperatively, or in solitaire mode. Players may play cards for their events, to campaign, to organize or to call for a vote in state legislatures to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Game play occurs over three eras that correspond to important historical periods of the movement up to the exciting culmination of ratification in 1919 and 1920. The Support player needs 36 states to pass ratification to win while the Opposition player needs only 13 states to bury the 19th amendment.
The gorgeous cards feature some of the famous leaders we already know, plus many suffragists who have been left out of the narrative but whose contributions were critical to the passage of the 19th amendment, as well as the events, publications and clubs that were instrumental to winning not just suffrage but to advancing the women’s rights movement overall. The opposition cards highlight the events, forces, industries and individuals, many of them women, who nearly thwarted the greatest expansion of citizenship in American history.
COMPONENTS:
Cardboard/paper:
1 Map board (56x43.5cm)
18 Campaign Buttons:
3x “VOTES FOR WOMEN” star pattern
3x “It’s a Man’s World Unless Women Vote”
3x National American Woman Suffrage Association 1848
3x “VOTES FOR WOMEN” multicolor pattern
3x “ANTI SUFFRAGE”
3x “VOTE NO ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE”
14 Replica Historical Documents:
Equal Franchise Society 1910 reprint of Abigail Adams’ 1776 Letter
The Anti-Slavery Bugle article: Sojourner Truth, 1851
Indictment for Illegal Voting, 1873
Votos Para La Mujer, 1911
Specimen Ballot: Women’s Suffrage Ballot, 1912
NWSA Lettergram, 1913
A. L. Wright Letter to the Department of Immigration, 1913
Standard Guano Company Letter, 1913
New Southern Citizen cover, 1914
Postcard: “We have sent you many hundreds like this”, 1916
American Constitutional League Letter, 1918
H. J. Res. 1, 1919
The New York Times composite article, 1920
McMinn County Voter Registration Card, 1920.
170 cards (63x89mm):
52 Suffragist Event cards (purple)
52 Opposition Event cards (red)
42 Oppobot Event cards (gray; solo/cooperative modes)
12 Strategy cards (yellow)
12 State cards (green; 2 for each region of the map)
Plastic:
21 acrylic Dice:
4 red d6 Dice, with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
1 gray d6 Die with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Solo/Co-op)
1 black d6 Die with numerals 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6 (Solo/Co-op)
4 white d8 Dice with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
1 gray d8 Die with numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Solo/Co-op)
1 black d8 Die with numerals 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Solo/Co-op)
6 light blue d12 Dice with numerals 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4
1 black d12 Die with numerals 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 (Solo/Co-op)
Wood:
250 custom wooden pieces:
18 Campaigners: 3x each standard purple Suffragist, yellow Suffragist, red Opposition; 3x each alternate design purple Suffragist, yellow Suffragist, red Opposition (only 2 Campaigners of each color are used during the game)
200 wooden 8mm cubes (65 purple, 65 yellow, 60 red)
37 green Check marks
15 red “X” marks
8 white Congressional markers (sculpted cylinders)
2 black Turn markers (disks)
Rulebook (12 p.).
Historical Supplement & Designer’s Notes (8 p. ).
Max Number of Players:
1-4
Barcode:
860031002516
Publisher:
Fort Circle Games
Playing Time:
75
Year Published:
2022
Designer:
Tory Brown
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Artist:
Brigette Indelicato
Marc Rodrigue
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Suggested Ages:
14+
Date Added:
2023-01-08 15:10:09
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$75.00
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-09-25
Date Added:
2023-01-08 15:10:09
