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Hardback

#223750BGG ↗

2018 · 1-5 players · 90min · weight 2.09 · 3,926 ratings

v2 v3

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ID
223750
Name
Hardback
Year
2018
Rank
873
Min players
1
Max players
5
Playing time
90
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.0933
Num weights
75
Bayes avg
6.50324
Average
7.11482
Users rated
3926
Num owned
7288
Wanting
192
Wishing
1171
Num comments
984
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Cooperative GameDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingDelayed PurchaseOpen DraftingPush Your LuckRaceSpelling
Categories (2)
Card GameWord Game
Description (1033 chars)

Hardback is a deck-building word game, a prequel to Paperback. As an aspiring 19th-century novelist, you work to pen your next masterpiece, earning prestige along the way. Specialize your deck in certain genres to exploit card combinations, and press your luck to draw extra cards — but make sure you can still string a word together! Players build a deck of letters with various powers and race to 60 fame points to win. Some of the features: No wilds in your deck - any card can be wild. Push your luck for more cards with the Ink system. Match genre colors to gain bonus abilities on your cards. New "Timeless Classic" letter cards stay in play until an opponent uses them. In addition to the competitive race mode for 2-5 players, the base game includes several variant rules, including Literary Awards, Adverts, Player Powers, and Events; and a co-op mode for 1-4 players, in which players join forces against one of four simulated opponents, each of which is proficient in a different deck genre.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).