NEUN and Two Guests Defuse Bombs as Monkeys Who Can’t See, Hear or Speak

RK MUSIC — NEUN, a virtual singer with RK Music, spent about two hours on Tuesday playing the cooperative bomb-defusal game BOMBANANA! with two guests, Sumito Owara and Zeroropes. In the game, three monkeys work together to save the world: one cannot see, one cannot hear and one cannot speak, so every cut wire and flipped lever depends on what the three manage to tell one another.

After opening the stream and introducing everyone, the group explained that NEUN had asked to play the game and that the two guests had come along as NEUN’s “guardians.” One of them joked that a failed defusal would be the guardians’ responsibility. The first attempts were rough. The players struggled to describe cable and lamp colors, and a clue that one player could not find on screen left the others pointing at the wrong wire. The group cleared its first bomb about 15 minutes in and began choosing harder difficulty levels.

The puzzles grew more complicated as the stream went on. Players had to read out lever positions, buttons that looked different to each person and numbers that only one of them could see, then work out which clues to trust. Around the 39-minute mark the group cleared a round built on simple arithmetic, and the others praised NEUN for getting it right so quickly. Later rounds added a piano keyboard, symbols that were identified by sound and inequality signs, and a wrong button press often sent a module back to the start.

Chat followed the scrambling with laughing and cheering emotes, and some viewers remarked on how hard it was to give directions without being able to see the screen. With the two-hour mark approaching, the group agreed to play one more round and finish. One step from the end of that bomb, a wrong press wiped the module’s progress, and one voice on the stream said everything had disappeared. The three blamed one another in good humor before thanking viewers and signing off.