TDG: Votes for Women

Have you ever wanted to vote but felt like the system was keeping you down? Now you can experience that feeling in board game form! Join Cody as he examines this game based on the Women's Suffrage Movement in the U.S. from Fort Circle Games! Will it represent at game night? Or will it just leave you feeling disenfranchised? Let's watch!
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[@reftomgreen82]

Thanks so much for the review. I feel I have too many games already (hundreds) but I suspect I need to squeeze this one in.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Ha! I know the feeling. But this one is really great!

[@wiktormonfilsgustafsson56]

Have to try it!

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Indeed!

[@salty-horse]

Thanks for an excellent review. I learned about the "feelies" in this game a few days ago, and now I want every game to include these. They used to be popular with computer games in the 80s, especially the Infocom text adventures. Side note: It would be cool to mention the designers of the games you cover, and not just the publishers. (I think the only designer mentioned in this review is Jason Matthews, who perhaps only inspired this game tangentially)

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Good point.

[@GenghisVern]

I've really been enjoying your slideshow lectures over on the other channel.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Thanks. Glad you like them. More to come.

[@danmillar6323]

Looks like an interesting game. I agree that more games should cover interesting historical events and periods that aren’t necessarily about war.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

It's a fun one. I hope you get a chance to try it sometime.

[@davidthompson7233]

Couldn’t agree more, my friend. My top game of 2022. Just adore this one.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Great game!!!

[@dhmcarver]

I am a sucker for games that tackle unconventional stories and themes, and political games, so I was half way there before watching the review. After hearing your lavish praise, I guess I need now to plop down $75 to get it into my collection. Curses, Discriminating Gamer!

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Sorry. It’s what I do.

[@henriklindholm3187]

There is a game released by the Dietz foundation called "Free at last" that deals with the Civil rights movement 60-65. If you want games dealing with US political history, :)

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Thanks.

[@szajko4360]

Have you tried the cooperative variant? If so, how did you like it? (+Any thoughts on 1989? That's another great variation on Twilight Struggle.)

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

I haven’t played co-op. Maybe I will down the road. Love 1989. I keep thinking I need to make a video out of that one. Haven’t played it in years, though.

[@blurryface123]

Awesome review. I ordered a copy from their website prior to your video. So glad to hear it is even greater of a game than I thought it might be. 🙂

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

It's awesome. Thanks!

[@Elicurren]

I'm waiting for the Star Wars version, votes for Wookie.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Ha! I would oppose the Wookie vote to my last breath!!!

[@kevinbertram4828]

@@TheDiscriminatingGamer Would play.

[@ShawnMM]

Sounds like a very interesting game. I'm going to share this with a US History II professor I know.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Fantastic!

[@P_E_P_1966]

Great wit's

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Okay.

[@johnf285]

This one looks good but I have curtailed board game purchases and it looks too similar to “1960” which I already have. Is it different enough to warrant a buy?

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

I think it is different enough that I’m keeping both. And I really like them both.

[@kevinbertram4828]

There are some noticeable differences - Votes for Women has separate player decks, is much more asymmetrical, has very different strategies and has a solitaire/coop option. But 1960 is certainly a great game.

[@pablod6872]

Yes, but would you recommend playing this game against your wife / girlfriend? I mean, when I beat my wife at Carcassonne I get enough heat; if I took away her right to vote, I can't imagine the level of ire 😊

[@kevinbertram4828]

That is why there is a coop mode where you play together against the Oppobot.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

I played it against my girlfriend as the opposition and won. It's all good. It's just a game.

[@wiktormonfilsgustafsson56]

May I point out that coross-eyed is an EXTERNAL opthalmoplegia. 😊

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Er.... Okay.

[@wiktormonfilsgustafsson56]

@@TheDiscriminatingGamer just a professional joke. Thanks for a great show! Just ordered Votes for women from my LFGS here in Stockholm Sweden.

[@mckenyon]

I thought New Jersey was the first state to let women vote back in the 1790s.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

I'm not sure, but I believe it was not across the board women's suffrage.

[@tbitty83]

The original New Jersey constitution did not restrict access to the ballot box by gender or race, and early voter rolls show (mostly white) women in New Jersey voted! But in 1807 they rewrote the constitution to remove land ownership requirements (how progressive!) and included gender restrictions (how regressive!). Utah was the first state to extend the right to vote to women (because of Mormon reasons) but Wyoming held its elections before Utah could, making Wyoming the first state where women voted in elections (after New Jersey!).

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

@@tbitty83 Thank you for the clarifications. And the great game. Played it again tonight.

[@tbitty83]

@@TheDiscriminatingGamer thank you so much! Your review was the highlight of my Tuesday. As a historian, your perspective is particularly heartening.

[@t3l3phasicworksh0p]

Hi Cody. Great overview and review as always - I can see how excited you were by the collateral shrinkrip damage to the box! I'll try and be more restrained when my copy arrives in Oz! BTW didn't the suffragists use peaceful means whereas suffragettes used "any means necessary" to acheive suffrage? All that matters is that we should all be inspired to follow our morals and ideals. Keep up the awesome work!

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Ha! Thanks!

[@davedogge2280]

My mother in law started an airline business recently.... ... ... ... . Yup you guessed right, the airline is branded 'Sufferer Jets'.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Ha!

[@christopherwilson2606]

I better let my wife win 😉

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Ha!

[@inwyrdn3691]

Me: "A board game about women's suffrage! Awesome! That's definitely something people should learn more about!" *Remembers Cody's ritual of occasionally topical, always groan-inducing jokes at the beginning and end of every video coupled with my experiences in college of people making terrible jokes about this time in history* Me: ".........oh no." Well played sir. Good choices.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Thank you, sir.

[@hadzhere]

votes for women...what a terrible idea (hey, as long as i can play the "no" side, i'm in)

[@douglaspearson4853]

i didn't like the theme as today I still believe women should not have the right to vote. I AM ONLY JOKING..! What I want to know is what you lady friend thought of the game? I think her opinion is very important. I would like to know if a non-gaming lady might like this. Because if I can get a lady to play this because of the theme it may lead to other games.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

She'll play games and usually pics up on them pretty quick - but she is not a 'gamer' per se. She really enjoyed the game. Quickly became one of her favorites as well.

[@douglaspearson4853]

@@TheDiscriminatingGamer I take it you will not be playing her Advanced Squad Leader then.

[@allenatkins2263]

Or, when the U.S. started going off the rails.

[@TheDiscriminatingGamer]

Er...

[@merasmussen82]

Absolutely correct.