Die Macher is a strategy board game published by Hans im Glück in 1986 that simulates a German general election.

Die Macher ("The Maker") was designed by Karl-Heinz Schmiel of Germany, and published by Hans im Glück in 1986 as a four-player game.

It added the Länder of eastern Germany, a fifth party (the PDS, the successor of the East German SED), updated the issues to those of the 1990s, and extensively changed the rules.

Players can deploy a limited number of "party meetings" (groups of grassroots activists) to a state; the more they have there, the more votes they will generate when the election is resolved.

When the election is held, each party scores votes based on the formula (trend + interest alignment)* (number of meetings).

Despite this, Moon found the game highly attractive and recommended it, saying, "Die Macher takes more than a minute to learn and you'll probably never master it.