Description

Deception! Destruction! Dexcitement!
Damage your friendships like never before with Detonators!
In this poker-face game of pretending to be a role you aren’t you must carefully build your own winning hand with cards from the deck - but beware, because one of your friends has your Detonator, and if they clue in that you are their target your hopes of winning could be up in smoke!

There are two goals in Detonators - to assemble your winning hand, or to detonate your target. The game is played using cards of five colors - each color has its own ability and rarity in the deck.

At the start of the game each player is given in secret their role card and their detonator. On their role card is written their winning hand - each of the five roles has a unique winning hand. Each detonator is coded to one of the other players’ role cards, but nobody knows who has which role. The deck is then shuffled and placed between all the players, and plays three cards onto the table face-up for everyone to see.

Play is turn-based, and on a player’s turn they can do one of four things:

DRAW a card either from the face-up set of three or from the deck itself.
PLAY a card from their hand, activating its ability and putting it in a discard pile
LOCK a card face-up in front of them, registering it towards their winning hand, or swap one of their already face-up cards with one from their hand.
DETONATE their target by playing two of their target’s winning hand cards, and correctly call out the player with that role. That player loses the game, and gives the player who detonated them their new target.

The game ends whenever a player has assembled their role’s winning hand in front of them, or whenever there is only one player left standing.

—description from the publisher