Roles: Blind, Mute and Deaf Monkey

Every BOMBANANA! team has exactly three players, and each takes one role. No role has the full picture, which is the whole point of the game.

Role	Can	Can’t
Blind Monkey	Touch and operate the bomb	See colors or read screens
Mute Monkey	Read the bomb disposal manual	Speak
Deaf Monkey	See the bomb and teammates’ gestures	Hear

The Blind Monkey works the bomb by touch. (Official screenshot © Lefto Studio / TARK)

How information flows

1. The Deaf Monkey looks at the bomb and describes what is on it.
2. The Mute Monkey finds the matching rule in the manual, but has to get the answer across without talking, using gestures and emotes.
3. The Blind Monkey is the one with hands on the bomb, so the instructions must reach them in a form they can act on.

Because the Mute Monkey can’t talk and the Deaf Monkey can’t hear, the team has to build a relay: who talks to whom, and how. Agreeing on that relay before the first bomb is the single biggest improvement most new teams can make. See the Beginner’s Guide for a first-session plan.

Tools for communicating

• Voice chat for the players who can use it
• Emotes and the emote wheel, which are the Mute Monkey’s main voice
• Gestures, which the Deaf Monkey can watch

Community verification wanted

Exact module-by-module callouts are being verified in-game. If you have a reliable callout system, it will be added here with credit.