Hidden Gems of the Constitution 🇺🇸💎📜👑

A faith-building, kid-friendly treasure-hunt game that teaches the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and how religious freedom enabled the Restoration of the Church — built for Family Home Evening, aligned with the First Presidency's 2026 invitation to teach the significance of America's founding documents and to give thanks for religious liberty.

▶️ Play it free: gems-of-the-constitution.netlify.app

No install. Works on a phone, tablet, or computer. 1–4 players take turns together.

📄 Download the FHE / Teacher Guide (PDF) — how to run it, talking points, and verified scripture/prophet sources.

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The doctrinal arc — three quests, getting deeper

God gave us rights → the Constitution protected them → religious freedom → the Restoration → temples → families together forever.

	Quest	Artifact	Question it answers
💎	The Founding Treasure	gems in the documents	"What happened?"
📜	The Restoration Key	scripture scrolls	"Why did God care?"
👑	The Covenant Crown	living-prophet teachings	"What is freedom for?"

Finish one quest to unlock the next.

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Screenshots

Start screen — pick players & avatars (each is an LDS symbol):

Quest 1 — tap a gold phrase, read it, tap the answer (no typing):

Quest 2 — scripture "scrolls" showing the actual words (D&C 101, 98; Mosiah 29; Alma 46):

Quest 3 — verified living-prophet teachings on why religious freedom matters now:

Finale — temples & forever families, with the America 250 invitation:

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Features

• 1–4 players, automatic turns, pick an LDS-symbol avatar (🐝 beehive, 🕊️ dove, 🏛️ temple…)
• Tap-to-answer with scrambled choices — works for kids who can't read or type yet
• A "why it matters" chain on every card (Doctrine → Why → Restoration → Temple) and false-path teaching (wrong answers explain the right principle)
• Source scrolls show the actual scripture/quote words; tap any image for the full painting
• America 250 finale (July 4, 2026) with verified quotes from Pres. Nelson & Pres. Oaks
• Share cards — generates a branded quote image that links back to the game
• Fully responsive (phone → desktop), single self-contained index.html

Develop

The whole game is one static index.html — just open it in a browser.

npm install
node test.mjs          # full 3-level Puppeteer playthrough (headless)

• Pushes to main auto-deploy to Netlify via GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/deploy.yml).
• A tiny Netlify Function (netlify/functions/shares.mjs) + Netlify Blobs counts shares.
• Testing cheats: add #level2, #level3, or #finale to the URL, or run cheat(2) / cheat('win') in the console.

About

Built by Reif Tauati (thegoodproject.net · reif@thegoodproject.net) for his family's FHE, with a little help from Claude. PRs and ideas welcome. 🙂

"And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose." — D&C 101:80

A note on doctrine: the claim is not that every Founder was a prophet or that America equals Zion — it's that the Lord used wise men to establish constitutional principles that protect moral agency, and those principles belong to all mankind.