#ktane

[four-two-six]

hi. anyone here play keep talking and nobody explodes? well i thought the original manual was nice, but i already have most of the instructions memorized, and some of the tables and graphs could be better organized. so i did that.

i make no guarantees about the accessibility, readability, or overall sanity of this - i was just going for something that looked better to me. :)

if anyone wants it i can find a place to upload the pdf, but here's just the whole thing in screenshots

[ranidspace]

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[nomiavixiii]

❤️🧡💛LIVE NOW💚💙💜

Link: ruining my relationship with my own mother by defusing bombs【KEEP TALKING AND NOBODY EXPLODES】

[sunskater]

so idk how much interest there is for ktane here on tumblr but i've been deep in the obsession, and as such i've been working on a modded campaign. currently it's a work in progress, but it's at a point where i feel comfortable showing it to people. i've been trying to get some more eyes on it to help fine tune things, and i've set up a discord server.

so if you're interested, come give it a look

[nascentsoulstudios]

WE ARE LIVE! Come watch Belbet get Keldrick blown up!

[isatumbles]

How are we feeling about another ramble post similar to my mahjong one?

[clone-fighter]

It's okay, guys! Just keep talking about random things!... that won't work on that bomb will it- [BOOM]

...So yeah, we had fun with the new Discord feature

Others in the images: @ivorytearz (<- DREW THE ART) @byrdofprey09 @catlauncher1000 @imnotabandicoot + Marshmallow Rat and Baly Bonestealer (no Tumblr)

[1-1sundial]

just watched this insane 4 hour video:

so, context:

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a game you play with two people. one person, the defuser, has a bomb in front of them. the other person, the expert, has a manual describing how to defuse the bomb. the defuser isn't allowed to look at the manual and the expert isn't allowed to look at the bomb; they're only allowed to communicate via voice call. (the expert doesn't even have to have the game; the manual is a PDF you can look at for free online.)

the bomb consists of modules that each have their own section in the manual for defusing. for example, the "wires" module looks like this:

and the manual's section on defusing it looks like this:

in the base game, there's a maximum of 11 modules on a single bomb. but the guys in the video were playing a modded version of KTANE. the bomb they were defusing had 236 unique modules.

they had 6 hours of time to defuse the bomb. they were allowed 25 strikes (mistakes when completing modules) but every time you get a strike the time starts counting down faster.

the defuser wasn't playing with one expert, he was playing with two, maybe three. he would give out information on a module to an expert, then come back later after the expert figured out the solution.

one of the modules was called "souvenir" and it consisted of a quiz show asking questions about other modules which had been solved. this thus required the expert team to write down all the information about the modules as they were being solved.

one of the modules asks you to put in tennis match data. one of the modules asks you to put in a mortal kombat combo. one of the modules makes you play with lego. one of the modules has you navigating the london transport system. one of the modules is about skyrim. one of the modules just has you calculate conway's game of life.

there were three modules with a completely blank interface which were indistinguishable visually. one of them had braille highlights when you hovered over them. one of them, you could hear a tapping sound if you selected it. one of them just required you to click on a specific part of it.

one of the modules required you to click on an LED when the bomb's timer reached an exact amount of time remaining. only a handful of times would be acceptable so after the expert calculated the time the defuser had to NOT miss it.

one of the modules had "stages", with the stage advancing every time the defuser completed any other module. every single time the defuser completed a module he had to look at that module and read some information off of it. did i say "one of the modules"? i meant TWO of the modules. one of them gave out three pieces of info per stage and accepted input in the form of a 10 digit code after 100 modules were completed. the other one gave out a number per stage, had one stage for every single module on the bomb meaning it had to be completed LAST, and the code you had to put in was 234 digits long.

one of the modules was a needy module that was just a glass of beer that would slowly drain and needed to be refilled every minute.

[ijsthee]

Realising by watching a streamer play keep talking and nobody explodes that whos on first is a LOT easier if english is your second language

[vonlipvig]

tuesday night with the friends!

[lokis-wager]

Two characters play "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" is an unexplored genre of fanfic that absolutely needs to exist.

[axolot-of-ideas]

i feel like i could defuse an irl bomb rn

give me 5 minutes and im sure i can do it

[lesbiten]

alpharad and jo uploading a video where they play keep talking and nobody explodes gave me war flashbacks to when i was hyperfixated on that game. i literally had so much of the rules memorized. i never played it myself but i would watch all those 2 hour long videos of people diffusing stuff like the centurion and the praetorian and i genuinely forgot that i did that until now

[sunskater]

shoutout that one time my friend and i saw the exact same answer on memory 5 times in a row, truly a sight to behold

[titanofthedepths]

Today on call I helped Data assemble a dresser Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes-style and honestly what a blast

[isatumbles]

Hi okya Im doing it :3

Topic of the day: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Ive heard of this game ever since it got popular around 2015 - 2017, and it has always intrigued me as a kid! A fun (and stressful) co-op game about defusing a bomb that has several puzzle-like modules on it with no idea how to complete them without the help of an expert? My grabious goodness that was like music to my ears for young me! But unfortunately, I did lose interest as I forgot about the game.. until a certain Roblox game (Looking at you, Defusal) brought me back to this game

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, or in its abbreviated name, KTaNE, is just as I said above, a bomb defusal game where one must defuse a bomb with instructions from an expert that can only see their manual! The game comes in a really nice painted aesthetic while keeping the tenseness of having to defuse a ticking bomb! Ill be discussing the general game and mods as well bc why nont

So the game has you go through several sections containing missions that gradually get harder as you progress. Each mission gives you a bomb with differing amounts of modules that can range from slightly easy to quite difficult (Depends on how well you can relay information, for me I am pretty good with all the modules, even morse!). The game sets the atmosphere really nicely with music that swells in intensity as the timer ticks down and the beeping of the timer that goes down, reminding the defuser of their job!

The modules this game presents are all super unique and fun to wrap ones head around, and one may even notice improvement with certain modules after doing them many times! Some modules that come to mind are:

The Button: A large button that can come in different colors and have different labels. The defuser has to either press the button or hold it and release it at a certain time. If the button is held, a light will appear on the right to tell when to release the button depending on the numbers on the timer! (I have a pet peeve watching people play this game and them giving the color of the button instead of the light next to it weeps)

Complicated Wires: Several wires that may come in striped or solid colored, as well as LEDs and Stars indicating if the wire should be cut or not. The expert has to read the given Venn diagram to see if the wire should be cut or not, resulting in heavy mind chugging and additional info such as if there is a port or a certain number of batteries!

The Knob: A needy module (Think a module that reactivates at random times that forces you to focus on it before handling other modules again) that shows several lights and a knob that you have to set in a certain direction before its own timer runs out! This one is a pretty annoying one considering the knob can reorient itself to throw off the defuser!

There are several more modules, but the game only has about 14 modules! So for more customization, the creators made it so the game is moddable, allowing people to make their own modules! Lets just say, as of the time I upload this, there is about 2,000+ modules made by the community. No, I am not kidding. These people have dedicated many years to creating and uploading modules for others to defuse and enjoy, and it is still heavily active with new modules almost every week or two! Some cool ones Ive seen are:

Forget Me Not: A boss module (A type of regular module that makes the defuser and expert record information every time a module is complete, and then having that information be used at the very end when all other modules are done) that displays a single digit for every solve before making you input a code with said digits. This module has plenty of variants and is commonly used in challenges.

Triangles: A group of similar-looking modules that require you to click on the triangles depending on what type it is such as Slipping Triangles, Dripping Triangles, Tipping Triangles, etc. Each have their own unique set of rules that range in difficulty. There are other modules that have similar-looking modules themselves such as the Squares, the Switches, the Flashes, and plenty more, but I prefer the triangles bc theyre my favorite lmofa

Simon Spins: A Simon Says module that has spinning arms with different colors, shapes, and movements. This is my all-time favorite Simon Says module as it is pretty fun to deal with! The large list it has in its manual as well as the unique combos makes it a new experience each time, even more so with seeds!

SO YEA I LOOOVE love KTaNE so much, and Im super glad the community is not only thriving but super friendly too! People are always available to play in the discord server, and some even allow themselves to teach other players how to do difficult modules that may stump new players! Its honestly such a blast and Im sure its a fixation thatll stick with me for a while!

Ill end this off with a large doc that I made for the sake of documenting on KTaNEs history and fanbase! Id be super elated to receive feedback on it and such, go take a look here!