I reverse engineered Hitster, the hit music trivia board game
wuemeli · hn · 2026-10-21
A developer writes up how they reverse engineered Hitster, the popular music trivia board game whose cards carry Spotify codes that let players scan and guess songs. The post applies classic reverse-engineering thinking to a physical game, unpacking how its mechanics and underlying data work.
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