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Base game
Hardback
Kritiku rating
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- Published
- 2018
- Reach
- Niche
- Players
- 1–5
- Play time
- 45–90 min
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- Card Game
- Word Game
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Main mechanics
- Co-operative
- Deck / bag building
- Drafting
- Dice rolling
- Co-operative: Everyone wins or loses together against the game.
- Deck / bag building: You shape your own deck or bag of resources as you play.
- Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
- Dice rolling: Dice create swing and force you to adapt.
Full publisher description
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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