Questions, defused

Two to five. One Defuser and one to four Experts.

You need to be able to talk, but the game doesn't do it for you. Sit in the same room, or use a phone or video call.

No, and that's the whole game. Online, Experts only see the timer, the strike count and how many modules are solved.

Yes. Press Play, pick a mission or set up a freeplay bomb, and start talking. Nothing to install.

Nothing. Bomb Appétit is free to play, and the code is open source on GitHub.

Any recent version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge, on a computer, tablet or phone. The bomb is easiest to handle on a bigger screen. The manual reads well on anything.

Yes. Open the manual and use your browser's print command. It is laid out to print cleanly in black and white. Check that the rule seed on the paper matches the bomb.

No. Guests can play everything. You only need to sign in if you want your runs on the leaderboards.

A number that generates the whole manual. Every seed gives a different set of rules, so answers from one seed are wrong for another. Rule seed 1 is the standard manual. The Defuser and the Experts must use the same seed.

Yes. The server replays every submitted run from its recorded inputs. If the replay does not end the same way, the run is not listed.

Each mission has its own board. You are listed once, by your best verified defusal: the most time left on the clock, then the fewest strikes, then the earlier run. Your rank is also shown as a percentile, so "Top 12%" means 12% of ranked players did as well as you or better. If a mission is changed, it starts a new board and the old one is kept as an archive.

Modules that can't be solved. They wake up now and then and need quick attention until the rest of the bomb is done. Ignore one for too long and you get a strike.

No. Bomb Appétit is an original game in the same genre. It has its own rules, art and sounds.