Explosive
Seconds

One bomb. One shared minute. Guess the word, pass the bomb β€” don't be holding it when it blows.

How to Play

  1. Set up a game - name your 2 teams and set member counts, pick word categories (or add your own custom one), and tune the rules: Time per team (default 60s), Lives per team (default 3), and Skips per turn.
  2. Open a room (optional) - get a 4-letter code so everyone can watch and play from their own phone. Without a room, it's pass-the-phone on one device.
  3. Two devices (optional, needs a room) - tick this so each team gets its own phone. Only the device holding the bomb sees the word and buttons; the other waits on a "get ready" screen.
  4. The team holding the bomb taps πŸ”₯ Arm the bomb to start their clock.
  5. One player describes the word out loud for their team to guess - no typing, no buzzers.
  6. βœ“ Got it! - point scored, the bomb passes to the next team with a fresh word. Your clock pauses and theirs starts. ↻ Skip deals a new word to the same team instead, limited by the skips setting.
  7. πŸ’₯ BOOM - when a team's clock hits zero, that team loses a life. A team at zero lives is eliminated, and both clocks reset for the next round.
  8. The last team standing wins. If the word deck runs out first, whoever has the most lives wins (ties broken by score; a full tie is a draw).

Works solo-hosted on one phone passed around the table, or with a room open so everyone plays from their own device.

On a keyboard, ← Skip / β†’ Got it! / ↑ Arm the bomb work too β€” rebind them in game setup.

New custom category