Comic Transcripts

[[A woman, PRUDELIA, stands before an enormous harp in a museum while speaking to a man, GRIMSBY.]]

PRUDELIA: Welcome to the Museum of the World’s Largest Harp! Let me show you around!
PRUDELIA: This is the world’s largest harp. It’s eighty-five feet tall and weighs precisely as much as a school bus.

PRUDELIA: It was constructed in 1883 by the great harpist and casino magnate John Harpington, after whom the instrument takes its name
PRUDELIA: Previously it was known as the stringflute
PRUDELIA: Upon Harpington’s death of consumption, this museum was erected around the harp, which could not be moved

GRIMSBY: What poppycock. There was no instrument called the stringflute. John Harpington died of syphilis, and there is a larger harp in Shanghai.

PRUDELIA: Sorry, who’s the harp expert here? Who’s the one with harp-shaped business cards working at a harp museum?
GRIMSBY: I have rectangular business cards, and I work in a rectangle building, but I can HARDLY claim to be an expert at ORTHOGANY.

PRUDELIA: That’s…not even a word?
GRIMSBY: OH so NOW suddenly you’re an expert on both harps AND wordmakery

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#1150; In which a Harp is huge transcribed by in

[[A woman, PRUDELIA, stands before an enormous harp in a museum while speaking to a man, GRIMSBY.]]

PRUDELIA: Welcome to the Museum of the World’s Largest Harp! Let me show you around!
PRUDELIA: This is the world’s largest harp. It’s eighty-five feet tall and weighs precisely as much as a school bus.

PRUDELIA: It was constructed in 1883 by the great harpist and casino magnate John Harpington, after whom the instrument takes its name
PRUDELIA: Previously it was known as the stringflute
PRUDELIA: Upon Harpington’s death of consumption, this museum was erected around the harp, which could not be moved

GRIMSBY: What poppycock. There was no instrument called the stringflute. John Harpington died of syphilis, and there is a larger harp in Shanghai.

PRUDELIA: Sorry, who’s the harp expert here? Who’s the one with harp-shaped business cards working at a harp museum?
GRIMSBY: I have rectangular business cards, and I work in a rectangle building, but I can HARDLY claim to be an expert at ORTHOGANY.

PRUDELIA: That’s…not even a word?
GRIMSBY: OH so NOW suddenly you’re an expert on both harps AND wordmakery

{{header: play along at WONDERMARK.COM}}

#1150; In which a Harp is huge transcribed by in

[[A woman, PRUDELIA, stands before an enormous harp in a museum while speaking to a man, GRIMSBY.]]

PRUDELIA: Welcome to the Museum of the World's Largest Harp! Let me show you around!
PRUDELIA: This is the world's largest harp. It's eighty-five feet tall and weighs precisely as much as a school bus.

PRUDELIA: It was constructed in 1883 by the great harpist and casino magnate John Harpington, after whom the instrument takes its name
PRUDELIA: Previously it was known as the stringflute
PRUDELIA: Upon Harpington's death of consumption, this museum was erected around the harp, which could not be moved

GRIMSBY: What poppycock. There was no instrument called the stringflute. John Harpington died of syphilis, and there is a larger harp in Shanghai.

PRUDELIA: Sorry, who's the harp expert here? Who's the one with harp-shaped business cards working at a harp museum?
GRIMSBY: I have rectangular business cards, and I work in a rectangle building, but I can HARDLY claim to be an expert at ORTHOGANY.

PRUDELIA: That's...not even a word?
GRIMSBY: OH so NOW suddenly you're an expert on both harps AND wordmakery

{{header: play along at WONDERMARK.COM}}

we sell novelty scale replicas of the world's largest harp. while aficionados of the world's largest harp will consider them comically small, in actuality they are around the size of a regulation orchestra harp

#1150; In which a Harp is huge

  — August 14th, 2015

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Bolted! Fulfillment Update

May 25, 2026 by David Malki !
Photo courtesy of backer Nicola!

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!


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