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Hardback and my 1920s Remington Typewriter [More Games Please]
An arrangement for cards in Hardback! Can you make the write moves?
Pnp didn't come with the card back so I designed my own :)
The various cards you'll see in Hardback!
Player markers with stickers on
There are four different genres in Hardback -- Romance, Adventure, Mystery, and Horror!
The "books" section of my game collection.
A game of Hardback, ready to be played!
Hardback Logo
At Barnes & Noble I recently saw that they have their own exclusive edition of Hardback.

Hardback (2018)

Players
1–5
Best: 2
Playing time
45–90 min
Age
10+
7.11
Average rating
3,994
Ratings
2.09/5
Weight
#1347
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:Tim Fowers, Jeff Beck (II)
Artist:Ryan Goldsberry
Publisher:Fowers Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 4.2, Theme 3
Strategy5.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity4.2
Theme3.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

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.

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