Does Anyone Recognise This Board Game?

[Tubbycoates]

Hi all,

I first saw this game in a ZX Spectrum book in the eighties.

It was called Explosion!

The game was played on a 3x3 grid. Each square had a capacity equivalent to the number of sides it shared with adjacent squares. E.g., if the layout was 123
456
789,
square 1 has a capacity of 2 because it is adjacent to squares 2 & 4, square 5 has a capacity of 4 because it is adjacent to squares 2, 4, 6 and 8.

Players would take it in turn to add a counter to the grid. If any square reached it's capacity, it would 'explode', and it would pass a counter to each of its neighbours. If any subsequent square then became full, it would also 'explode'.

The loser was the player who set off a continuous set of explosions.

Does anyone know of this game?

Thanks in advance.

[Mamyalynne]

Can't see that exact name on this list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_games

[Tubbycoates]

I saw it in a Spectrum book, where you had to type in the BASIC language listing.

[Mamyalynne]

I apologise for missing that part,, will look again.