BOMB✂BUSTERS

How to play Bomb Busters

1. The team wins together — defuse the bomb by emptying every rack. You see your own wires, sorted from low to high; your teammates' wires face away from you.
2. Duo cut: on your turn, point at one wire in a teammate's rack and call a value that you hold yourself. Right: both wires are cut (theirs and one of yours). Wrong: the detonator ticks and the wire's real value is marked for everyone. Red: BOOM.
3. Solo cut: if the last 2 (or all 4) copies of a value are all in your own hand, cut them yourself — always safe. Same for the last yellow wires.
4. Yellow wires have no number — cut them by calling “yellow” while holding one. Their sort position (between two numbers) is public knowledge on the board.
5. Red wires are never cut. When reds are ALL you have left, spend a turn revealing them — then you're done and safe.
6. Detonator: a team of N survives N−1 wrong calls. The Nth reaches the skull.
7. Setup: everyone marks one of their own blue wires for the team — a free, truthful clue.
8. Double Detector: once per mission, each player may point at TWO wires in one stand and call one value — it cuts if either matches.
9. Equipment unlocks when both copies of its printed value are cut, and is used once per mission:

Bomb Busters is by Hisashi Hayashi, illustrated by Dom2D (© Cocktail Games / Pegasus Spiele) — Spiel des Jahres 2025. This unofficial fan implementation covers the standard rules with difficulty presets in place of the 66-mission campaign, and five of the twelve equipment cards (the ones that move wires between racks are omitted). Table talk is part of the fun — but discussing the wires in your own hand is against the spirit of the game!