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Spiel 2015 Preview: TimeBomb, or Do Not Ask for Whom the Bomb Tolls

Spiel 2015 Preview: TimeBomb, or Do Not Ask for Whom the Bomb Tolls
Board Game: Don't Mess with Cthulhu
I've already written about Yusuke Sato's TimeBomb from New Board Game Party — a hidden role game in which 2-4 SWAT team members try to find all of the "Success" cards in play before the end of four rounds or the detonation of the single bomb in play, while 1-2 terrorists try to befuddle them — but here I am talking about it again, this time with a video overview of the game ahead of its international debut at Spiel 2015.

Why show TimeBomb off once again? Well, some individuals really prefer videos over written descriptions, and I thought it might be nice to cater to their tastes. Also, we have only six weeks remaining before the Spiel convention opens in Essen, Germany, so I'm trying to knock out as many previews as possible of games that will debut there or be widely available for the first time.

Thus, you can expect many more such previews in the weeks ahead, sometimes on video, sometimes in text, sometimes in a photo gallery, and perhaps once via fortune cookie.

Board Game: Don't Mess with Cthulhu

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