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[[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! Shipping is UNDERWAY

April 4, 2026 by David Malki !

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!


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