Unstable Explosives

A press-your-luck party game

Unstable Explosives is a PC party game for 3-8 players, built around passing a growing stack of dynamite. On your turn, add a stick to the live stack and pass it on. The fuse is the deck, which burns down as play continues. Someone eventually has to take the stack, and each stick they take counts against their score. The lowest score wins.

Special cards and decks

Fifteen special cards bend the rules. Cherry Bomb puts a point at the bottom of another player’s pile, Tea Party shuffles everyone’s hands and deals them back out, and Magic Mirror copies the last card played. Dud can stop a detonation at the last second if you’re holding one. You can build your own deck or play with the house set.