Posted September 17, 2025 by Kosterix
#Popular #Hardback #Solo #Bot
I put up Hardback for sale on the secondary market, because it hadn’t seen any sunlight in the last two years. Looking at my files I had apparently written a solo bot for it and on a variant of bgg some dude had outlined his own bot. Reason was the same: the bot in the rulebook by Fowers was both too complicated (different behavior depending on what suit the bot drew every turn) and too restrictive, ie you were forced into a reactive stance rather than enjoying making words.
The layout, typesetting and scoring took roughly 5 hours per bot. I’ll make a video on each, unless the game is sold beforehand ofc. The files were downloaded 10 times within 10 hours so apparently there’s a demand for a HB solo. Sadly no reviews or comments, as usual. I guess no news is good news then...