By playing this multiparty game of electoral strategy, you'll see how easily you can change the world by winning elections with the political organizing, consensus-building and agenda-setting tools of the Global Social Network for Voters.

The renowned game developer, Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, emphasizes that many of the 500 million people who play online social games every day -- especially massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) -- prefer games of collaboration and camaraderie to games of warfare and aggression. She observes that these players are creating a global "collective intelligence" about ways and means by which ordinary people like themselves can dramatically improve the quality of human life and solve societal problems that cause preventable physical and emotional suffering.

McGonigal believes that the reason so many people play world-saving games is because real world environments and institutions deny them the power to be heroic. Participation in these games adds meaning and happiness to players' imaginary lives by enabling them to make valuable contributions to their online communities.

At the same time, they are developing interpersonal problem solving skills that they can use in the real world to play collaborative, pro-active roles in real life that enable them to join forces with legions of other people to solve problems causing human suffering -- including their own.

When you play the Citizens Winning Hands Game, you will quickly see how you can use the web-based tools accessible on the Global Social Network for Voters to surmount obstacles impeding your exercise of your political sovereignty. You will acquire new strategies for circumventing the obstacles placed in your way by electoral and legislative processes that prevent you from deciding who runs for office, who gets elected, and what laws are passed.

Although the tools of the game were originally invented to empower American voters to increase their control of U.S. electoral and legislative processes, they are generic and can be adapted by people living in virtually any country in the world.

You and voters worldwide can use the tools and databases to build your own voting blocs, political parties and electoral coalitions to circumvent impediments similar to those that exist inside the U.S., as well as those that are unique to particular home countries.

You can play the online as well as face-to-face in our homes, schools and communities with any number of participants using mobile devices and computers. In both face-to-face and online versions, you can play the role of voters residing in election districts that you select from the game's online Election District Database, which simulate the classic parameters of districts everywhere.

You can develop your own strategies for competing with other players for setting legislative agendas and building online blocs, parties, and coalitions to elect candidates for public office to enact your legislative priorities and agendas.

You can search the Election District Database to obtain strategic information about each district, which you can use to plan your electoral strategies and decide how to set winning agendas and build winning blocs, parties, and coalitions. This information will include voting patterns, voters' legislative preferences, prior choices of particular combinations of priorities, trends and significant political events. To initiate an online game, which can be played synchronously or asynchronously, you must be joined by at least one other player, and ideally from many players choosing the same election district from the database.

As you and the other players move around the game board, you will develop strategies for managing the effects on your legislative agendas and your blocs, parties, and coalitions of unforeseen events that add or subtract votes to and from your tallies.

Your challenge is to use events you control to add votes to your tallies, and offset the votes you lose, as a result of events you can not control. By so doing, you can ultimately build winning blocs, parties, and coalitions that cast the highest number of votes for your candidates.

Your strategies for setting legislative agendas and building winning blocs, parties, and coalitions will reflect your own needs, personal legislative priorities, as well as prior district voters' priorities and voting patterns, as well as the changing demographics of the districts, according to strategic information accessible in the Election District Database.

The voting bloc, political party or electoral coalition that casts the most votes for its candidate win the game. If you merge your voting blocs and parties into coalitions that cast the most votes for your combined candidates, you are the winners.

The complexity of the political landscapes of most of the simulated election districts modeled after U.S. Congressional districts will already be familiar to many players of the game in the U.S. and abroad. The ubiquitous nature of the obstacles will resonate with voters around the world.

What will be unfamiliar, and what players will discover while playing the game, will be the ease with which they can surmount these obstacles by using the tools of the Global Social Network for Voters to build winning blocs, parties, and coalitions around strategically formulated legislative agendas, especially those that build consensus across partisan lines and winning cross-partisan electoral bases.

You will realize that the consensus building tools provided on the Global Social Network for Voters make it possible for you and voters worldwide to build consensus around your own collectively devised solutions to problems, crises and conflicts that current governments appear unable to devise. You and your collaborators will realize you can easily get your solutions implemented legislatively by forming consensus building online voting blocs, political parties and electoral coalitions large enough to win elections and determine who runs for office, who gets elected, and what laws are enacted.