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Game Preview: SPIEL 2016 — TimeBomb II, or Looking for Bombs in All the Wrong Places

Game Preview: SPIEL 2016 — TimeBomb II, or Looking for Bombs in All the Wrong Places
Board Game: TimeBomb II
In August 2015, I presented an overview of Yusuke Sato's TimeBomb from New Board Game Party, a hidden role game of terrorists versus SWAT team members in which the latter need to defuse a bomb before time runs out. That game has now been licensed in English, French and German editions — with the subject of these new versions now being, respectively, Cthulhu, Sherlock Holmes, and explorers — while Sato has gone on to create a sequel to the original design: TimeBomb II.

Yes, the SWAT team and terrorists are at it once again, this time with the SWAT team racing to uncover all of the terrorist hideouts before time runs out — or before the building goes up in a blaze of fire, thereby causing tremendous damage to both the city and the SWAT team's reputation. Naturally trouble will ensue as the terrorists have infiltrated the SWAT team once again and will be attempting to delay and misdirect as much as possible within the short timespan of this game.

Board Game: TimeBomb II



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