Overview of game: The U.S. Constitution has just been written and signed, and states are contemplating its ratification. Race to Ratify covers the platforms of the federalists and the anti-federalists in this debate. Players act as pamphleteers and travel around the 13 U.S. states to interview people and learn their stances on ratification, with arguments for and against. The characters in the game that players interview are based on real-life people of the time and include farmers, officials, slaves, and statesmen. During the interviews, students acquire argument tokens which they use when composing their persuasive pamphlets. After initial interviews, players need to pick a side -- federalist or anti-federalist, and create a persuasive pamphlet. In the pamphlets, students compose up to three articles by choosing previously earned argument tokens that support the side they have chosen. No actual writing is necessary. The game then evaluates how persuasive their arguments are (if players chose the correct argument tokens), and players set up their printing press near states that need convincing to vote for the player's chosen side. To provide some challenge, there's a rival pamphleteer supporting the other side. By the end of the game, players will need to have swayed enough states to pass the overall ratification. Once nine states ratify the new Constitution, it goes into effect for those states. But if just five reject it, the whole idea is rejected and they have to start over.