Maryland: the broken-winged pterodactyl
Maryland is the Democratic mirror image of the Republican gerrymanders. The state votes about 60 percent Democratic, and its map is one of the most lopsided in the country, drawn so Democrats win seven of the eight seats.
A fair map would still leave Republicans two or three safe seats in the west and the Eastern Shore. Instead the lines below string the Democratic areas together and crack the Republican pockets apart, shutting the minority out almost entirely; the 3rd District was called a 'broken-winged pterodactyl' by a federal judge, one of the least compact districts in America. (Benisek v. Lamone reached the Supreme Court alongside the North Carolina case.)
You are playing the Republicans. In a state drawn to shut you out, gather the red west and the Eastern Shore, and win a majority of the seats on a map built to deny you even one.
Clinton 60.3%, Trump 33.9%. Maryland's 2016 presidential vote.
Maryland's eight districts, 2016 vote: one left red, seven drawn blue, including the pterodactyl-shaped 3rd.