Heckadeck

About this board game

Heckadeck is a hand-illustrated 160-card deck for 1-99 players, with a listed play time of 30 minutes, designed for remixing classic games or inventing your own.

Created with illustrations by Travis Nichols, this distinctive deck offers a broad collection of suits and unusual card types. It is a flexible foundation for family game night, creative experimentation, or a super-serious game design club.

Each suit includes zeroes, elevens, and Beasts. Alongside those cards are four additional suits, giving the deck an especially varied visual and thematic range:

• Knives
• Acorns
• Clouds
• Planets

Heckadeck also includes cards that do not fit a single-suit pattern. There are two-suited Hunters and Travelers, as well as non-suited arrows and talismans.

The deck’s other named cards include a Crone, an Omnihedron, Darkness, and the all-suited Watcher. Together, these elements make the deck suitable for adapting familiar games or serving as a starting point for entirely original designs.

Released in 2016, Heckadeck invites players to decide how its unusual cards will be used. Whether the goal is a relaxed family activity or focused game creation, this richly illustrated deck is built for playful remixing and invention.