The BOMBANANA Bomb Manual

The BOMBANANA manual is the book only the Mute Monkey can read. In practice it is less a book you read front to back and more a set of doors: once a panel has a name, you open the one page that matches it. This guide covers what the manual contains — every module, what each one shows, and the callout order — and is honest about which exact answer tables are still being verified for the full release.

What the bomb is made of

A BOMBANANA bomb is built from defusal modules you complete and Chaos hazards you keep under control. Community and guide sources list 11 defusal modules and 3 Chaos hazards, often referred to together as the "14 modules".

Defusal modules: Wires (Cable), Color Slider, Direction (D-pad), Calculator (Numpad / Maths), Symbol, Piano, Soundboard, Switch, Maze, Morse, Monkey-Says.

Chaos hazards: Slider, Pressure, Alarm.

Note that Braille and "lever" are not separate modules. Braille is an input the Blind Monkey reads by feel and reports; it appears inside modules such as Direction and Maze. Whether "lever" is a distinct panel or the Mute's word for the switch panel is unconfirmed.

The universal callout

Before any module, agree a small gesture vocabulary and use this structure every single time:

Module name → position → the details that module needs → the manual answer → repeat-back → confirm → input.

Six signals cover most situations where communication starts to drift:

The most important distinction is repeat versus reset: one missing fact means repeat; conflicting memories or lost positions mean reset.

What each module shows

• Wires — a number of wires with colours left to right, plus an LED colour. Always call the count first: three wires and four wires can use completely different rules.
• Direction (D-pad) — an active LED colour and a centre value (a number, or a Braille value the Blind reads by feel), then a direction from the manual.
• Calculator (Maths) — an expression to read and solve out loud, an odd/even flag, sometimes a greater-than / less-than threshold, and an LED colour. The keypad is scrambled, and the sum's answer is not always the key you press — the manual picks the final target.
• Switch — four light colours, four numbers and four up/down switches. You need several states correct before a single Enter.
• Symbol — a shape that must stay described clearly enough for the manual side to find the same symbol.
• Piano — a short ordered note sequence.
• Soundboard — several targets where identifying the right one first matters more than the rest of the state.
• Morse — dot-and-dash signals decoded to digits, each digit tied to its own slot.
• Maze — the Blind reads one Braille number and a lit red light (current position); the Deaf reads a lit green light (the fixed destination); the Mute has several maze diagrams and works out a direction and step count. A wrong move sends the team back to the start, but the destination and layout do not change.
• Color Slider and Monkey-Says — a positional-order module and a memory module respectively; details are being confirmed.

Chaos hazards

Chaos is not solved, only kept safe. Slider is a control marked with a warning symbol that climbs on its own — drag it back down and keep watching it. Pressure and Alarm work the same way: keep them from becoming urgent until the bomb is defused. See the Chaos hazards guide.

After any mistake

Stop. Panic inputs stack mistakes faster than calm retries. Call a full stop, then re-read the entire module from scratch — a wrong input can change the LED, the number or the stage you are on, so the answer that was right ten seconds ago may not be any more.

What is still unconfirmed

The exact answer lookups for each module — which wire to cut for which LED, the switch tables, the Calculator branch logic — are still being verified by the community against the full release. The demo's manual had blank pages the release filled in. Until the tables are confirmed, the module pages here cover how to read and call each panel cleanly and mark specific lookups as unconfirmed.