Bomb Busters

Cut the wire. Not that one.

A bomb full of wires, a countdown already running, and a team of disposal experts who are each missing the one piece of information they need. Hisashi Hayashi designed it for Cocktail Games.

You can see your own wires on the tile holder in front of you. What you cannot see is anybody else's, so the job is working out what your teammates are holding and steering the team toward cutting matching wires in pairs. Cut a red one and the whole thing goes up. Equipment gives you limited, rationed ways to buy information, and the challenges get steadily harder as you work through them, so there is a campaign's worth of escalation in the box. Half an hour, and it teaches in about three minutes.

Perfect for: Groups who communicate best under completely unreasonable constraints.

2–5 players | 30 minutes | Age 10+

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