Quorum

Each legislator has hidden positions on the bill's provisions. Spend a limited budget of meetings to probe and reveal their true preferences, then add or remove provisions to flip enough members to yea. Keep your starred ideal provisions in the bill for a scoring bonus, then call the vote.

• Click a provision to add it to or remove it from the bill
• Select a legislator and probe to reveal one true position (costs a meeting)
• Build a bill that reaches the pass threshold while keeping your ideals
• Call the vote when you think you have a majority

• Desktop: click provisions, legislators, the probe button and Call the Vote
• Phone & tablet: tap the same controls

• Probe swing legislators first, knowing their stance on one provision often unlocks their whole vote
• Dropping a divisive provision can win several votes at once, but watch which ideals you sacrifice
• Meetings are scarce; deduce as much as you can from each reveal before spending another

Quorum is a legislative-deduction puzzle about whip counts and compromise, teaching the real mechanics of passing a law.

• Skills: civics, legislatures, whip counts, negotiation and compromise
• Best for: roughly grades 8–12 (ages 13+)
• For parents & teachers: the messy reality of passing legislation.

Spending a budget of meetings to reveal legislators' hidden positions, then adding or removing provisions to assemble a majority, is legislative bargaining.

Making information itself cost something is the original constraint.

That is how a whip's job is actually constrained. Counting votes takes time nobody has, and amending a bill to win one legislator can lose another — which is logrolling and vote-trading seen from the inside, and why bills emerge stuffed with unrelated provisions.

Quorum is an original legislative-deduction puzzle about whip counts and compromise. Play free in your browser across daily and practice chambers and three difficulty levels.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.