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Founding Fathers

#37358BGG ↗

2010 · 3-5 players · 90min · weight 2.75 · 1,988 ratings

v2 v3

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ID
37358
Name
Founding Fathers
Year
2010
Rank
1188
Min players
3
Max players
5
Playing time
90
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.7531
Num weights
162
Bayes avg
6.16836
Average
6.95169
Users rated
1988
Num owned
2283
Wanting
205
Wishing
774
Num comments
642
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:52 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Area Majority / InfluenceCampaign / Battle Card DrivenHand ManagementOpen DraftingSet CollectionSimulationVoting
Categories (2)
Age of ReasonPolitical
Description (916 chars)

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.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).