Bomb Busters Co-op Game, Spiel des Jahres 2025 Winner

Bomb Busters is a cooperative deduction game designed by Hisashi Hayashi and first published in 2024 by Cocktail Games. This listing is for the English edition from Pegasus Spiele. It won the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 2025.

You and your team are a bomb-disposal squad sharing a wall of numbered wire tiles. Each player can see only their own wires, so you work out from clues and guesses which wires your teammates hold, cutting matching pairs while avoiding the red wires. The team wins when every safe wire is cut before the detonator trips. The game is a campaign of 66 missions, with sealed surprise boxes that add new rules as you progress.

Game details: Players: 2 to 5 (best with 4). Play time: 20 to 40 minutes. Ages: 10 and up. Publisher: Pegasus Spiele (English edition), original publisher Cocktail Games. Language: English. Box contents: 70 wire tiles, 12 equipment cards, 8 mission cards, 5 character cards, tokens, a board, pawns, tile stands, 5 sealed surprise boxes and a rulebook.

Ideal for friends and families who like to win or lose together, groups that enjoy talking a puzzle through, and anyone who wants a game with a campaign feel. More like this: Codenames and Flip 7 Card Game. Browse more board games.