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Short Fuse

One phone has the machine, the others have the manual, and nobody can see the other's screen.

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  • 2 to 4 players
  • No TV needed
  • 2 to 4 players
  • Everyone on one team
  • Ten kinds of box
  • Easy, normal or hard

Open this on your TV or laptop. Everyone joins from their phone.

No TV handy? It plays on phones alone. Start it on your phone

How it plays

  1. 1

    One of you holds the machine

    Laces to cut, keys, a music box, a lock, a taffy lever, a sprinkle jar, syrup pipes, stickers, an oven and twin buttons. Only you can see them.

  2. 2

    The rest hold the manual

    Charts, a wheel to spin, a song book to hum along to, a pipe plan, a thermometer. Only you can see them, and the light on the TV is part of it.

  3. 3

    Describe everything

    "The swirly one. No, the other swirly one." Three mistakes and it bursts.

  4. 4

    Swap and go again

    Every machine is new, a bit harder, and someone else holds it. Later ones change under your hands, and the light goes out.

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