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Hot Bomb

A push-your-luck hot potato party game played on your TV, with your phone as the controller.

  • 3-8 players
  • Multiplayer
  • Plays in the browser

Hot Bomb is a push-your-luck hot-potato party game for three to eight players. Holding the ticking bomb earns points, faster as it heats up, but it blows at a hidden moment. To throw it you pick a player and cut the right wire on your phone. Everyone has two lives, players out of lives come back as ghosts, and the most points wins.

How to play Hot Bomb

  1. After a 3-2-1 the bomb starts with whoever has the fewest points. The first part of the wick is safe; after that it can blow at any moment, and the big screen glows redder and ticks faster.
  2. While you hold the bomb you earn points, more the hotter it gets. Throwing it banks them. If it blows in your hands you lose the points you had not banked and one of your two lives.
  3. To throw, tap a player, then cut the wire your phone names. The word is painted in the colour of a different wire. A wrong wire makes the fuse jump.
  4. Whoever threw the bomb to the player it blows up on, or bounced it back to them with a shield, gets 30 bonus points, or 45 for revenge on the player who last threw it at them.
  5. Not holding the bomb? Once per bomb you can raise a shield for 1.4 seconds. A throw that hits it bounces back to the thrower, and you get 10 points.
  6. Out of lives, you become a ghost and haunt a living player: the bomb burns twice as fast in their hands, and if it blows up on them you come back with one life and 25 points.
  7. The first bomb that starts after 53 seconds is the final bomb: its holding points, gotchas and haunting points count double. The round also ends if fewer than two players have lives left. The most points wins.

Controls

While you hold the bomb: one button per player to aim, then four coloured wires to cut. Otherwise: one big Shield button, or, as a ghost, one button per player to haunt.

Tips

  • Throw before you feel safe: cutting the wire takes a second, and the hottest part of the wick pays the most because it is the riskiest.
  • When someone aims at you, raise your shield just before the throw. Aiming at a player and waiting for their shield to run out is the counter.
  • Throw it back at whoever threw it to you: a blast on them pays 45 instead of 30.

Start Hot Bomb in three steps

  1. Open ourconsole.in on a TV or laptop and press Host a game.
  2. Connect each phone to the same WiFi and scan the QR code on the screen.
  3. The first player picks Hot Bomb from the menu on their phone.
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