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Founding Fathers box cover design.
Founding Fathers game board
Delegate Cards in a line
Alexander Hamilton (front of a player's delegate/reference card)
Delegate Cards fanned
Founding Fathers game in Progress.
Game in progress
Influence Markers
Picture of game co-author Jason Matthews, climbing with his children on the George Mason memorial.  George Mason is an important card in the game.
Early prototype components

Founding Fathers (2010)

Players
3–5
Best: 4
Playing time
90–90 min
Age
13+
6.95
Average rating
1,996
Ratings
2.75/5
Weight
#2403
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:Jason Matthews, Christian Leonhard
Artist:Josh Cappel
Publisher:Jolly Roger Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 5.5, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity5.5
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

PoliticalAge of ReasonSet CollectionVotingCampaign / Battle Card DrivenHand ManagementOpen DraftingSimulationArea Majority / Influence

Overview

A game from designers who made 1960: The Making of the President. The goal here is to be the founding father with the most renown at the end of the game, which consists of the making of the US constitution.

Each round, an article of the constitution is put up for consideration, which is either a Federalist, Anti-Federalist, Big State, or Small State issue. Players have a hand of three delegate cards that represent their respective states and also have a special ability. Players may use these cards' special abilities, use the cards to vote for or against the issue under consideration, or to try and claim tokens in each of the four types of issues. When a round ends, the issue either passes, or is flipped to its opposite side (Federalist/Anti or Big/Small).

Players score points for having voted with the majority, and also for having tokens matching the issue types that are voted into the constitution.

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